Bug 645 – vipw in RH5.2 doesn't work by default - hard coded editor path is wrong

Bug 645 - vipw in RH5.2 doesn't work by default - hard coded editor path is wrong

Summary:	vipw in RH5.2 doesn't work by default - hard coded editor path is wrong

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 120

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	redhat-release (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Reported:	1998-12-29 09:56 EST by aa8vb
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1998-12-29 10:27:42 EST
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Description aa8vb 1998-12-29 09:56:29 EST

vipw in RH5.2 is hard coded to fire up /usr/bin/vi
by default.  There is no /usr/bin/vi, so the command doesn't
work without workarounds.

vi is /bin/vi, so setting EDITOR to override the broken
default is one way around the problem.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1998-12-29 10:27:59 EST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120 ***

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