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From: "Dominique Goncalves" <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing Default Editor in profile
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Hi,

On 9/8/06, Huy Ton That <huyslogic@gmail.com> wrote:
> under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line:
>
> EDITOR=pico;    export EDITOR
>
> where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my
> personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is
> now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily.  However, when I ssh in
> and then su, I try to run crontab only to find it is still booting into 'vi'
> by default.  Any ideas how I can get this loaded?

You have to use "su -", if you want load your root's environnement.
su(1) for more explications.

HTH
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