From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 29 23:38:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98A1037B423 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 29311 invoked by uid 100); 30 Apr 2001 06:38:45 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15085.2165.385902.854011@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 01:38:45 -0500 To: Charlie Root Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab problems In-Reply-To: <51583181@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charlie Root types: > I receive the following error when using crontab -u name -e > > "crontab: temp file must be edited in place" > > any ideas? thanks Read the man page: -e Edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. The specified editor must edit the file in place; any editor that unlinks the file and recreates it cannot be used. Looks like your editor is one fo the ones that cannot be usd. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message