not a support question
Anonymous
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I'd like to use cron, but I can' set it up.
The crond daemon is running. But when I'd like to edit my crontab with "crontab -e", it just gives me this error message always:
"Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM"
EDITOR variable is set to nano. Which runs without any problem, if I run it manually.
Does anyone have any idea? I did not find any familiar cases on the net.
Thanks for your help, in advance!
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
Which version of SliTaz are you using?
The crontab (and crond) is controlled by busybox, so it might be a issue with that.
Funny enough, if I run crontab -e, it opens up the crontab file with leafpad :/
Anonymous
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It's the 3.0 version. (with busybox 1.12.0)
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
Hmmm, I get the same error if I set $EDITOR to nano and it completely freaks out if I set it to vi. Funny enough, it works fine for leafpad, beaver, geany or any graphical editor I set it to. This is really odd and possibly a bug in busybox since vi and nano is integrated into it too.
Anonymous
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Indeed, vi just screws the whole putty window. But my problem is that I can't use graphical programs, so leafpad is not an option for me :( Any other command line editor advises?
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
I found two. First is vim-tiny package which replaces the vi provided by busybox and the second is pico provided by the alpine package. The alpine package is smaller to install than vim-tiny and pico has a closer feel to nano than vi.
So go tazpkg get-install alpine then set it with EDITOR=pico ; export $EDITOR and try crontab -e again ;)
EDIT: Or not... This is really annoying :/ - vi from vim-tiny seems to work, but it's vi so you have to use : type commands - if you've ever used v before that is.
kultex
offlineKey Master
I use mc (Midnight Commander) and mcedit without any problems - even tested with putty
Anonymous
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Ok, I give up.. I'll edit /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root it manually :)
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