Roel van Meer wrote:

> When i use vim, changes i make in my crontab entries do not get saved.
> Does anyone have seen this before, or have an idea what may be causing
> it?

The problem is caused by vims backupcopy setting, which is automatically
changed by set nocompatible. If you have a .vimrc file, set nocompatible
is done automatically, by the way.

set backupcopy=yes -> crontab -e works
set backupcopy=no -> crontab -e does not work
set backupcopy=auto -> crontab -e does not work

Putting "set backupcopy=yes" in either my .vimrc or in the global
/usr/share/vim/vimrc fixes the problem.

YMMV,

Regards,

roel

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