crontab not observing EDITOR or VISUAL
Bug #222830 reported by
William Siddall
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cron (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
cron (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 8.04
crontab -e uses nano editor even though EDITOR and VISUAL are set to /usr/bin/vi, as verified by echo's. Changing link from /usr/bin/editor to /usr/bin/vi (was linked to /bin/nano) causes crontab -e to work as expected.
Related branches
Changed in cron: | |
assignee: | kamion → kirkland |
Changed in cron: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
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I believe that this is because crontab is using /usr/bin/editor, rather than /usr/bin/ sensible- editor, as suggested by Debian policy, section 11.4 of: www.debian. org/doc/ debian- policy/ ch-customized- programs. html
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I have filed a bug and submitted a patch upstream as well: bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 482284
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In the mean time, I have test packages for Hardy in my PPA: /edge.launchpad .net/~kirkland/ +archive
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I will attach a patch in my next post for Intrepid.
:-Dustin