RedHat 8.0 and crontab

[Iraj Medifar]

On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:19 am, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 3/6/2003 2:12 AM, someone claiming to be Iraj Medifar wrote:
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > I wonder if anyone has experienced that RedHat 8.0 does not allow a user
> > to edit his crontab. It looks strange that the same edit on another box
> > with Mandrake 8.2 does work.
>
> Works for me, RH8.0
>
> > In Mandrake, one opens a terminal and runs:
> >
> > 	export EDITOR=gedit
> > 	crontab -e
>
> In RedHat 8.0, I just use
> 	crontab -e
>
> I believe the default EDITOR is vim (or plain vi -- :wq saves and quits)

Thank you Joel, turns out vi does the trick! But here's what kind of baffles 
me. With RedHat 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1, I always switched to gedit to edit my 
crontab and never had a problem. In fact a well-known QUE manual on RedHat 
6.2 suggested the use of gedit for those (like me) who didn't feel very 
comfortable with vi. In any event, I used vi and it worked and that's what 
matters. Thanks a lot again for the helpful hint.

Iraj

>
> > Then follows by commands and saves the changes. That's it.
> >
> > In RedHat 8.0, the same action results in this message: "no changes made
> > to crontab".  You get the same message even when you log in as root and
> > try to edit the user's crontab.
>
> Is this just your user, or other users, too. Can root edit his own crontab?
>
> > Has anyone else had the same experience with RedHat 8? Is there a
> > solution? Am I forgetting something in RedHat?
>
> I'm with Joel on this, check your perms.
>
> HTH,
> Tim
>
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