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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060925/2c8fe0e0/attachment-0005.html>