Bug 41291
| Summary: | crontab -e fails when /tmp is a softlink | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | ellson |
| Component: | vixie-cron | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | software |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-12-07 22:35:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description of Problem: We were tying to make /tmp a softlink on a diskless sytem running RH7.1. When /tmp is diirect, entring a comment such as "#hello" into crontab works ok: $ crontab -e << insert "#hello" in vim session here crontab: installing new crontab $ When /tmp is a softlink, entering a comment into crontab fails: $ mv /tmp /tmp.old $ ln -s /tmp.old /tmp $ crontab -e << insert "#hello" in vim session here crontab: no changes made to crontab $ We think that the problem might be vim. Changing vim to the version from RH7.0 fixes the problem. There are some comments in vixie-crontab code that refer to race conditions, so perhaps a change in vim has just exposed one. How Reproducible: 100%