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Re: unwanted crontab message

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Andy Smith :
> As to why whatever it is set as right now is doing that, first work
> out where it is getting the setting from, so echo $EDITOR and echo
> $VISUAL. If neither of those are set then ls -la /usr/bin/editor.


Thanks Andy.

either $EDITOR or $VISUAL in my system is empty.

And /usr/bin/editor points to nano.

Then I run this command,

$ sudo update-alternatives --config editor
There are 4 choices for the alternative editor (providing /usr/bin/editor).

   Selection    Path                Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /bin/nano            40        auto mode
   1            /bin/ed             -100       manual mode
   2            /bin/nano            40        manual mode
   3            /usr/bin/vim.basic   30        manual mode
   4            /usr/bin/vim.tiny    15        manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 3
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide /usr/bin/editor 
(editor) in manual mode



to choose vim.basic as default editor.

In my system both vim.basic and vim are the same stuff,

$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Aug 27 2024 05:34:22)
Included patches: 1-16, 647, 17-579, 1969, 580-647, 678, 648-1848, 4975, 
5016, 5023, 5072, 2068, 1849-1854, 1857, 1855-1857, 1331, 1858, 
1858-1859, 1873, 1860-1969, 1992, 1970-1992, 2010, 1993-2068, 2106, 
2069-2106, 2108, 2107-2109, 2109-3995, 4563, 4646, 4774, 4895, 4899, 
4901, 4919, 213, 1840, 1846-1847, 2110-2112, 2121
...


$ vim.basic --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Aug 27 2024 05:34:22)
Included patches: 1-16, 647, 17-579, 1969, 580-647, 678, 648-1848, 4975, 
5016, 5023, 5072, 2068, 1849-1854, 1857, 1855-1857, 1331, 1858, 
1858-1859, 1873, 1860-1969, 1992, 1970-1992, 2010, 1993-2068, 2106, 
2069-2106, 2108, 2107-2109, 2109-3995, 4563, 4646, 4774, 4895, 4899, 
4901, 4919, 213, 1840, 1846-1847, 2110-2112, 2121
...


Then I logged out and re-login the system, run 'crontab -e', the error 
still shows. Maybe I got bad luck today. :(

Regards.

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