don't depend on vi

[ilf]

Using crontab -e without vi installed results in the error: /bin/sh: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory.
Please don't hard-depend on vi. As fallback, it's sane. But please prefer my setting in $EDITOR. Thanks.

[t8m]

Which version of cronie do you have? The current version already respects $EDITOR if set.

[ilf]

Running cronie 1.5.1.

You're right, $EDITOR is respected. Just not with something like sudo crontab -u nobody -e, there it starts vi. But crontab -u nobody -e in a root-shell uses $EDITOR. Must be something about env with sudo.

Sorry for the noise.

[t8m]

Yes, sudo clears such environment variables for security reasons.