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In article <62Ei8.1728$qm4.13514775@news-text.cableinet.net>, Adam wrote:
> 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

You could try doing it another way.
crontab -l >mycron
then edit mycron with emacs and 
crontab mycron
to install it.