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From: "Huy Ton That" <huyslogic@gmail.com>
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Thank you sirs!!!  That did the trick!


On 9/8/06, Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> Regards.
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