[sudo-users] sudo crontab -e gives me ED instead of vi

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Tue Jan 29 08:17:09 EST 2008


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	so spake  (John.Hallman):

> Anyone come across not being able to sudo crontab -e?

What does "sudo printenv | egrep '(VISUAL|EDITOR)' display?
You may need to add a line like the following to /etc/sudoers

Defaults	env_keep+="VISUAL EDITOR"

 - todd



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