Re: Trouble creating crontab

Will Parsons writes: Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e? >>> >>>Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used >>>crontab -e. What I do: >>> >>>crontab -l > crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst >> >> I always just use the togg

Re: Trouble creating crontab

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:19:10PM +, Will Parsons wrote: >Ralph Hempel wrote: >>Honestly, can we please not have every "sarcastic" answer interpreted >>as a personal slight? > >And it wasn't? You could have fooled me. Apparently I did. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Re: Trouble creating crontab

Ralph Hempel wrote: > Will Parsons wrote: > > Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e? Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used crontab -e. What I do: crontab -l > crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst >>> I

Re: Trouble creating crontab

Ralph Hempel wrote: > Will Parsons wrote: > > Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e? Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used crontab -e. What I do: crontab -l > crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst >>> I

Re: Trouble creating crontab

Will Parsons wrote: Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e? Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used crontab -e. What I do: crontab -l > crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst I always just use the toggle switches on the front

Re: Trouble creating crontab

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +, Will Parsons wrote: >>Paul Mead wrote: >>>"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: >>> Not necessarily. You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled ed

Re: Trouble creating crontab

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +, Will Parsons wrote: >Paul Mead wrote: >>"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: >> >>>Not necessarily. >>> >>> >>> >>>You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd >>>prefer not to trac

Re: Trouble creating crontab

Paul Mead wrote: > "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > >> Not necessarily. >> >> >> >> You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd >> prefer not to track down the permission issues with NT Emacs and Cygwin. > > I'd lov

Re: Trouble creating crontab

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Paul Mead wrote: > "Mark J. Reed" <...> writes: http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > So I've managed to falteringly edit my crontab using vim (doesn't feel > right and I made loads of mistakes, so I've got to find out how to get > emacs working instead

Re: Trouble creating crontab

"Mark J. Reed" writes: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Paul Mead wrote: >> If not, how do I get it to use a different editor? I already have >> EDITOR=/bin/vim in my .profile and have tried /bin/vim.exe in case that >> was the problem. > > A couple quick things to check: > > 1. Make sure the E

Re: Trouble creating crontab

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Paul Mead wrote: > If not, how do I get it to use a different editor? I already have > EDITOR=/bin/vim in my .profile and have tried /bin/vim.exe in case that > was the problem. A couple quick things to check: 1. Make sure the EDITOR variable is exported. Just se

Re: Trouble creating crontab

"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > Not necessarily. > > > > You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd > prefer not to track down the permission issues with NT Emacs and Cygwin. I'd love to use whatever works, I'v

Re: Trouble creating crontab

Paul Mead wrote: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: ^ . Spammers->Don't feed. Thanks. Paul Mead wrote: OK, now that I appear to have sorted my permissions out in general, I still have a problem creatin

Re: Trouble creating crontab

"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > Paul Mead wrote: >> OK, now that I appear to have sorted my permissions out in general, I >> still have a problem creating crontab. >> >> I run crontab -e and it fires up emacs (my editor of choice) but can't >> create the crontab file becuase the temp version is u

Re: Trouble creating crontab

Paul Mead wrote: OK, now that I appear to have sorted my permissions out in general, I still have a problem creating crontab. I run crontab -e and it fires up emacs (my editor of choice) but can't create the crontab file becuase the temp version is unreadable. I also tried to open it using anot

Trouble creating crontab

OK, now that I appear to have sorted my permissions out in general, I still have a problem creating crontab. I run crontab -e and it fires up emacs (my editor of choice) but can't create the crontab file becuase the temp version is unreadable. I also tried to open it using another editor by was d