Upgraded Emacs, can't change crontab

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From: Adam
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:36

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I'm running Mandrake 8.1, which came with Emacs 20.7. I'm not familiar with 
vi, so I put these lines in my normal .bashrc and my root .bashrc:

# default editor, e.g. for crontab
EDITOR='/usr/bin/emacs'
export EDITOR

That worked; crontab -e used to bring up Emacs and modify the crontab. A 
few days ago I upgraded to Emacs 21.1.1. I changed /usr/bin/emacs to point 
to the new version and my scripts that use it work correctly.

But crontab no longer works correctly:

/home/adam $ crontab -e
  (over in the Emacs window: made changes, C-x C-s C-x C-c)
crontab: no changes made to crontab
/home/adam $ 

Interestly crontab -l worked and crontab -r worked, so I now have an empty 
crontab, which I can't change:

/home/adam $ crontab -e
no crontab for adam - using an empty one
  (over in the Emacs window: made changes, C-x C-s C-x C-c)
crontab: no changes made to crontab
/home/adam $ 

The cron daemon is still working correctly, since root's cron jobs are 
still running correctly.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Adam

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