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.