From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1621 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2004 16:36:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1604 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2004 16:36:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2004 16:36:07 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i22Ga51t003001; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:36:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id i22GZpvX002997; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:36:05 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:32:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Thorsten Kampe cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab In-Reply-To: <45ou9g03fkw9.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> Message-ID: References: <45ou9g03fkw9.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00120.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100) > > Dear all, since the first time using "crontab -", I can never change the > > crontab file anymore. "crontab -e" calls emacs, but cron just discarded any > > new modifications. The emacs saved the "crontab.*****" into /tmp. What's > > wrong? Thanks. > > Try using another editor as Emacs is a GUI editor. This has nothing to do with emacs being a GUI editor (which it isn't, BTW, or not necessarily). This does have to do with the editor writing files in-place. I'm not sure if either the native or the Cygwin port of emacs does. That said, Thorsten did provide a good rule of thumb: most GUI editors, especially Windows ones, don't write files in place. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/