RE: [cobalt-security] Crontab since Patches

["Dean Browett" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

Mike, that does seem to be the fix for the crontab issue. 

If you don't have a .exrc file just create one: echo "set backupcopy=yes" > .exrc in /root



-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-security-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-security-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Holloway
Sent: 15 May 2003 19:28
To: cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Crontab since Patches


Jad

You're right - that fixed it.  But in the process I notice that when I run
vi now I actually get vim, whereas before I patch I'm sure running vi gave
me standard vi.

Mike

>
> I did not have this issue on my RAQ4, but, I did have it on our current
> internal Linux distribution.
>
> I found that adding
>
> set backupcopy=yes
>
> to my .exrc fixed this problem.  I did not investigate much futher, but I
> believe the defaults for vim may have changed for our internal Linux
> distribution and VIM on the RAQ4 after the most recent patches (which I
have
> not applied yet).
>
> Regards,
>
> -Jad DeFanti
> jad@xxxxxxxxx
>
>


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