use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Tue Dec 9 18:17:29 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:07 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 19:01 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > Crashing is a bug; a message that $EDITOR should be set and/or 'vi' be
> > installed a proper behavior.
> 
> I don't disagree, but until the package does that, it should require
> vim-minimal to avoid the crash.
$ crontab -e
/bin/sh: /bin/vi: No such file or directory
crontab: "/bin/vi" exited with status 127

Is this unacceptable behavior? I don't think so. But of course the
message could be even improved. Much better than making cronie depending
on any editor.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb




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