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> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: vi, crontab and a soft-linked tmp dir = broken
> 
> 
> Hey People,
> 
> I have a small problem. On most of our systems (Rh 6.2 -> RH 
> 7.2) we use a softlink for the /tmp dir. When we run "crontab -e"
> and make changes to the crontab, save and exit we get 
> "crontab: no changes made to crontab"
> 
> Things that fix this:
> 
> 1. Make /tmp a real directory, not a softlink
> 2. Set EDITOR or VISUAL to some editor other than vi.
> 
> So, it seems that there is some trickery happening with vi 
> and a softlinked directory. Have any patches/updates been 
> released for this issue? 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Collin Baillie > 



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