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Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:14:23 -0400
From: "Kevin A. Pieckiel" <pieckiel+freebsd-questions@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: vipw: pw_edit(): No such file or directory
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On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:00:53PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> >A server (that someone else has set up as a development box) gets
> >the following error whenever I run vipw:
> >
> >vipw: pw_edit(): No such file or directory
> >
> >Where do I even begin to look to fix this?
> 
> I would check what $EDITOR is set to, and verify whether that program is 
> available on the machine.

Sure enough, that's it.  Thanks!

Kevin