Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread Reid Thompson
Brian Dessent wrote: lin q wrote: Hi Brian, I attach the log from cygcheck. I do not see anything obviously wrong as I am not familiar with it. Since there are some personal data in it, please do not reply to the public email alias, I appreciate your help very much. That's unfor

Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread Brian Dessent
lin q wrote: > Hi Brian, > I attach the log from cygcheck. > > I do not see anything obviously wrong as I am not familiar with it. > > Since there are some personal data in it, please do not reply to the > public email alias, I appreciate your help very much. That's unfortunate, but pleas

Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread Brian Dessent
lin q wrote: > "ls -l /usr/bin/vi" says 'ls: File or directory "/usr/bin/vi" is not found'. I'm beginning to suspect that the 'ls' and/or 'crontab' that you are using are not from Cygwin. ls should say "ls: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory." If it is really saying what you have above then

Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread lin q
From: Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:05:53 -0800 lin q wrote: > I wonder what the problem is, I can start vi by running, /usr/bin/vi.

Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread Brian Dessent
lin q wrote: > I wonder what the problem is, I can start vi by running, /usr/bin/vi. What does "ls -l /usr/bin/vi" report? And your cygcheck output would have been helpful. > I also tried "export EDITRO=/usr/bin/vi" and "export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim", > neither one works. I think it uses VIS

Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread lin q
Hi, I just re-installed the latest cygwin to have cron installed. Then i run the following command to install the cron service, cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D After that I run, crontab -e But I get the following message, bash-3.00$ crontab -e