Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 07:11:36PM -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Today for the first times since I upgraded my Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab; Devuan support is off-topic on this mailing list, please use one of the Devuan support channels: https://devuan.org/os/cont

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-01 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 1-11-2017, at 12h 52'17", to...@tuxteam.de wrote about "Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps" > On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 12:28:51PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > [...] > > > What is a "Devuan"? > > Devuan is a for

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-01 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 01-11-17, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 10:00:27AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > deloptes: > > > > > > Indeed, thanks for the hint, however OP wanted to edit crontab, which > > > needs > > > root access. > > > > 'crontab -e' works for all users. > > A more correct w

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 12:28:51PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: [...] > What is a "Devuan"? Devuan [1], [2] is a fork of Debian, which was made because some people were unhappy about how Debian handled the transition to systemd as the default

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-01 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 1-11-2017, at 02h 01'08", Will Mengarini wrote about "Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps" > * Ron OLGIATI [17-10/31=Tu 19:11 -0300]: > >> [...] Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab [...] > >> under Devuan, crontab opens the file with na

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 10:00:27AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > deloptes: > > > > Indeed, thanks for the hint, however OP wanted to edit crontab, which needs > > root access. > > 'crontab -e' works for all users. A more correct way to put it is 'crontab utilizes root access'. $ l

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-01 Thread Will Mengarini
* Ron OLGIATI [17-10/31=Tu 19:11 -0300]: >> [...] Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab [...] >> under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano [...] * deloptes [17-11/01=We 09:23 +0100]: > [...] OP wanted to edit crontab, which needs root access. It seems more likely that he was talking about

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-01 Thread Jochen Spieker
deloptes: > > Indeed, thanks for the hint, however OP wanted to edit crontab, which needs > root access. 'crontab -e' works for all users. J. -- I am getting worse rather than better. [Agree] [Disagree] signature.a

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-01 Thread deloptes
Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 01.11.2017 00:00, deloptes wrote: >> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > >>> Now under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano, which I hate, >>> abominate, pursue with intense loathing... > >> sudo update-alternatives --config editor > > select-editor(1) is also an option (co

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-10-31 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 01.11.2017 00:00, deloptes wrote: > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: >> Now under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano, which I hate, >> abominate, pursue with intense loathing... > sudo update-alternatives --config editor select-editor(1) is also an option (configurable per user). available i

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-10-31 Thread deloptes
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Today for the first times since I upgraded my Debian Wheezy to Devuan > Jessie, I tried to use crontab; > > in Debian, it opened the file with vi, just as $DEITY had ordered it since > the beginning of the world. > > Now under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nan

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-10-31 Thread Will Mengarini
* Ron OLGIATI [17-10/31=Tu 19:11 -0300]: > [...] in Debian, [crontab -e] opened the file with vi [...]. > Now under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano [...]. > How do I get crontab back to using vi ? In your <~/.bashrc>: export EDITOR=vim export VISUAL=vim Or modify as needed if you'r

Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-10-31 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
Today for the first times since I upgraded my Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab; in Debian, it opened the file with vi, just as $DEITY had ordered it since the beginning of the world. Now under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano, which I hate, abominate, pursue with