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Re: unwanted crontab message

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You are getting Vim error messages from a version of Vim that does
not support scripting (probably vim.tiny).  That version is probably
installed on your system ALONG WITH a version that does support
scripting, but cron does not have the scripting version of Vim on PATH.
(Typically, your $HOME & root PATHs are more elaborate than the one to
which cron defaults.)  The solution is to set PATH in your crontab.

* Marcus Park <marp@privatembox.com> [24-09/14=Sat 06:12 +0800]:
>
> 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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unwanted crontab message Marcus Park <marp@privatembox.com> - 2024-09-13 23:50 +0200
  Re: unwanted crontab message Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-09-14 00:00 +0200
    Re: unwanted crontab message Marcus Park <marp@privatembox.com> - 2024-09-14 00:20 +0200
      Re: unwanted crontab message Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-09-14 00:50 +0200
        Re: unwanted crontab message Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-09-14 01:00 +0200
      Re: unwanted crontab message Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-09-14 00:50 +0200
        Re: unwanted crontab message Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-09-14 03:00 +0200
  Re: unwanted crontab message Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-09-14 00:00 +0200
    Re: unwanted crontab message Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-09-14 10:50 +0200

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