[CentOS] Crontab not working....

[Ian mu]

Actually it seems to be the same now even when I dos2unix now (seems to work
sometimes not others which is confusing me even more now), wondering if its
selinux after all even though afaik it shouldn't be.

On 9/25/06, Ian mu <mu.llamas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hiya, thanks again, there's no .vimrc file at all.
>
> :set gives
> :set
> --- Options ---
>   backspace=2         history=50          scroll=11           ttyfast
>   fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
>   Hit ENTER or type command to continue
>
> This is exactly the same as in crontab -e (thats what I use to edit anyway
> though, so assume it just calls vim), it was also the same problem in nano
> when I tried after you mentioned that.
>
> Thanks, Ian
>
> On 9/25/06, Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 25/09/06, Ian mu <mu.llamas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hiya, thanks a lot for that Will (sorry spelt name wrong before!),
> > think
> > > you're reply has almost got there...
> > >
> > > If I dos2unix the file it works, if I use vi/m (what I normally use)
> > or nano
> > > etc, it doesn't work (but will if I then dos2unix it again)?
> > >
> > > SELinux I think is on permissive/targeted (I'm not too familiar with
> > selinux
> > > as someone else set it up, but my understanding is that it should
> > allow all,
> > > but log/audit it?).
> > >
> > > Looks like thats it, but not sure still why its not saving it
> > correctly?
> >
> > Sounds like vi/vim's doing something weird to the file on write/save.
> > Have you any user specific initialisation in the user whose crontab
> > you're editing's $HOME? i.e. If you're setting up the crontab for
> > logadmin, whilst logged in *as* logadmin, is there a $HOME/.vimrc file
> > or similar?
> >
> > If you just run vi/vim without passing it any files to edit then do
> >
> > :set
> >
> > ... what does that result it? On a vanilla system here with
> > vim-enhanced installed and no customisations, running vi I get...
> >
> > :set
> > --- Options ---
> > backspace=2         history=50          ttyfast             t_Sf=^[[3%dm
> > cscopetag           hlsearch            ttymouse=xterm
> > cscopeverbose       ruler               viminfo='20,"50
> > helplang=en         scroll=11           t_Sb=^[[4%dm
> > cscopeprg=/usr/bin/cscope
> > fileencodings=utf-8,latin1
> > Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> >
> > Compare that to what you get by default and what you get when you run
> > crontab -e. If I run crontab -e then examine vi's environment it's
> > just...
> >
> > :set
> > --- Options ---
> > backspace=2         history=50          scroll=11           ttyfast
> > fileencoding=utf-8
> > fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
> > Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> >
> >
> > Will.
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