Re: cron on 10.5.2 server

In article <bob-BFA18B.09273524042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Robert Peirce <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <bob-295F8D.08372224042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Robert Peirce <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > In article <nospam.News.Bob-78854B.19460723042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > I think you need to check the state of the various Vim backup 
> > > options when doing a 'crontab -e'
> > > 
> > > :set backup
> 
> I found the problem.  Now, what do I do about it?  The 
> /usr/share/vim/vimrc file contains the following lines:
> 
> " Don't write backup file if vim is being called by "crontab -e"
> au BufWrite /private/tmp/crontab.* set nowritebackup
> 
> It appears nowritebackup is not being set.  If I manually enter
> :se nowritebackup
> while editing a cron file, it seems to work okay.
> 
> This line seems to work correctly on 10.4.11 and 10.5.2 client and it 
> used to work on 10.5.2 server, but now it isn't working.  Is it possible

> the system vimrc file is not being read?  How would I know? If not that,

> what else could it be?

OK, some suggestions:

1)  Modify your own .vimrc to specify your own nowritebackup

    autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre crontab.* set nowritebackup

    NOTE 1: I am setting the value when the file is read,
            NOT when it is written.

    NOTE 2: I did NOT specify a directory path.
            I just said any file that starts with
            crontab.* is treated this way.

2)  Make the above modification to /usr/share/vim/vimrc

3)  I would have suggested maybe putting a modeline 
    (:help modelines) into the crontab file, but the 
    /usr/share/vim/vimrc sets modelines=0 which disables
    modelines.

                                        Bob Harris