Problem with cron

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Sun Mar 24 17:02:31 UTC 2013


On 03/24/2013 03:12 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Verify that $EDITOR is set actually. $EDITOR is evaluated here just fine.
> And
>
>    $ echo $EDITOR
>    emacs
>    $ EDITOR=nano crontab -e
>    <Ctrl-X>
>    crontab: no changes made to crontab

As I'm sure I've written before, I've checked this with echo, and 
they're set.  However, do they need to be Exported to be picked up by 
crontab?


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