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On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 01:00:20PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Raphael wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 05:53:24PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > > > > > > --- Raphael <raphael@oninet.pt> wrote: > > > > > Hi guys/girls~, > > > > > > > > > > I'm having a bit of a problem with my windows based editor. Using > > > > > it with > > > > > Pine or Mutt is not problem. Using it with Crontab -e gives a > > > > > sharing > > > > > violation error when I want to save the new file. > > > > > > > > > > Is this a crontab problem? > > > > > > > > Use vi.exe > > > > > > Most windows editors adopt a remove-and-recreate (or rename-and-recreate) > > > policy. This basically means that they will try to remove or rename the > > > crontab-created file (which will fail, silently), and then create that > > > file over (which will fail since crontab has it open). This is where your > > > sharing violation comes from. > > > > Ok, I can understand that explenation. > > > > > I've verified this with notepad and > > > editpad, but I'm sure most of the others will behave similarly. Thus, > > > looks like using a cygwin-based editor is your only option, unless you can > > > find a windows one that writes the files in-place. If this creates one > > > more convert for the vi camp, all the better. ;-) > > > > Don't think so, why should Cron not be able to act like Pine or Mutt. I > > guess the latter start opening the file in shared mode? > > I don't know about mutt, but pine, IIRC, does not keep the file open while > it's being edited by an external editor. It re-opens the file afterwards, > which is why it doesn't care whether it's the same file, or a newly > created one. Hi Igor, But do you have any idea why Cron shouldn't be able to act the same? Kind Regards Raphael
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