[sudo-users] sudo crontab

[Galen Johnson]

What we did was to disable the env_reset (Defaults    !env_reset)...this took care of 99% of our environment issues.

=G=

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From: sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com [mailto:sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com] On Behalf Of Jeanne Ilchuk
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:31 PM
To: sudo-users at courtesan.com
Subject: Re: [sudo-users] sudo crontab

I'm telnet from home using our VPN, and I export TERM=vt100, EDITOR=vi
VISUAL=vi, from the .profile in my home dir.

The setting Todd recommended for the sudoers file works fine, but I was
wondering why it wasn't defaulting to my editor, or root's editor, which
is vi. Here's part of my .profile

EDITOR=vi
VISUAL=vi
export PATH MANPATH EDITOR VISUAL
#PS1='$NAME: $PWD $ '
PS1='METALIB-jmi # '
SHELL=/bin/ksh
TERM=vt100
export PS1 SHELL TERM
set -o emacs

I set emacs so I can use the arrow keys to recall commands instead of
the ksh esc-k

Where is the system default editor set?  I didn't see it in any of the
files in /etc/default/

Jeanne


Faisal Azfar wrote:
>
> Did you check your  terminal settings  in the shell that you are using
> sudo ?
>
> you might want to do a setenv TERM ( or export  TERM) to point to the
> correct setting  ( e.g vt102 ).
>
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> - Faisal
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> When I try to sudo crontab -e for root, or any other application users I
> am responsible for, I get this weird result.  I'm using vi editor.  What
> else should I look for ?
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> jmi # sudo crontab -e sfxglb3
> Password:
> 131
> ?
>
> ?
> q
> The crontab file was not changed.
> jmi #
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> What does this mean?  Our organization has finally instituted sudo for
> all former root users, so my workday is grinding to a halt trying to
> re-adjust.
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