From: Sylvain Robitaille (syl@alcor.concordia.ca)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 09:39:44 EST
[ Please note: This message has been sent to both the Tru64 Unix
Managers mailing list and the comp.unix.tru64 newsgroup; My apologies
to those who will ultimately see multiple copies of the message. ]
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, I wrote:
> A user on one of my Tru64-5.1a systems, when attempting to edit his
> crontab file using "crontab -e", upon exitting the text editor, receives
> the following error message:
>
> <ar/cluster/members/member0/tmp/aaaALNKlQ" 77L, 3224C written
> crontab: cannot create your crontab file in the crontab directory.
Many thanks to Dr. Thomas Blinn of HP for helping pinpoint where the
problem occurs exactly (following a call to stat() in crontab), and to
Paul A. Sand of the University of New Hampshire, for helping me
understand why. The complete explanation, for those who are interested
is found at (sorry about the long line):
http://www.ornl.gov/cts/archives/mailing-lists/tru64-unix-managers/2002/01/msg00190.html
In my original message, I should have pointed out that the user in
question uses vim (Vi IMproved) as his editor, although so do I and at
least one other account with which this was tested (and didn't have the
same problem). With this, I should be able to have the user use Vim in
a mode within which it will not exhibit the same behaviour which is
causing this problem.
Thanks very much to all who took the time to read about and research my
problem...
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca Systems analyst Concordia University Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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