-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In my case, emacs gave me no errors when saving the file, and there were no errors in syslog either. Greg On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:00:18PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:10:49 PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Yes, I've seen what you describe, though it only happens to me if I > > login as a normal user, do a su to become root so I can edit root's > > crontab, and am using emacs, since my normal user's $EDITOR and > > $VISUAL are set for emacs, but root's $EDITOR and $VISUAL are the > > defaults (I.E. vi). > > Do you get any sort of error message after you quit vi? How about in > /var/log/syslog? If crontab says you have successfully updated your > crontab when you haven't then the problem runs pretty deep, but it is > probably simpler and the error message should give a clue. > > -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:42ab26cb31231500927412! > > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCqzh97s9z/XlyUyARAh4UAJ43p1lOJGJzwZs4P1BWgVSGq1S/ZgCdGe26 TH2jR1iwtxMwfE8T++fYyVA= =daua -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
