Re: cron on 10.5.2 server

In article <67bohcF2o2643U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On 2008-04-24 16:24:54 +0100, Robert Peirce 
> <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> 
> > I hate to do that but you are probably correct.  So far we have only
> > found the one problem, but there could be more.  Actually, cron works
> > fine.  It is crontab -e that is acting up, and I guess that means it
is
> > vim that is acting up.
> 
> I'm shocked that no-one's suggested using emacs yet ;-)

Why?  emacs isn't available on all ditributions and installations of 
*nix. In comparison, vi/vim is almost always there, and it's the default 
editor in many, many installations.

> If you set make-backup-files to nil, I think emacs will do what's
needed.
> 
> Actually, TextWrangler will probably work as well if you insist on 
> having a GUI.

The editor isn't his problem.

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