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Date:      Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:19:07 -0400
From:      Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing Default Editor in profile
Message-ID:  <20060908111738.2EBC.GERARD@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <1cac28080609080749q4fe4d31agc51d5206b0340f5c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1cac28080609080749q4fe4d31agc51d5206b0340f5c@mail.gmail.com>

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Huy Ton That 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?

Try using: su -m instead.


-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard@seibercom.net


Give a man a fire, he is warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he is
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