-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-07-31 at 01:37 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Gremlins in my 10.3 server again. I went to edit a crontab and to my surprise, a blue screen editor appeared and I had no idea how to get out of it so I just hit ctrl+c to exit. Further investigation revealed that "joe" was now my default editor? joe who?
[00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # set | grep EDITOR EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe [00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi [00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # set | grep EDITOR EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi _=EDITOR
Okay... :-)
Now I have an additional piece of environment set to "_=EDITOR". I killed it with "unset _".
Forget it, that's just the last command you run.
More troubling is how did "EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe" get set in the first place? This is a basic 10.3 server (Linux nirvana 2.6.22.18-0.2-default). I like vi, I wouldn't change it.
I would look at the chair keyboard-interface(s) for a culprit :-p
More frustrating, this seems to be set every time I open a new shell. I exit a shell, su to reopen another, and the thing is set to joe again. Where do I fix this for good? Thanks.
Just: grep EDITOR * and undo the changed file; should be .bashrc or .profile. If not there, did you per chance "su" to root, without "-"? Then look at the settings for the user. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIkY9WtTMYHG2NR9URAkdOAJ0bpPsHB5D1fHK9hbxhDd1p1JZX8ACfW9ZE QUyTaltd7BxdxGFqCWtB7x0= =PSK+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org