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Fixing crontab -e "/bin/sh: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory error."

Hi all.

I was trying to run crontab -e on one of my machines to add few cron jobs and I have found myself looking at this error:

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory

Wth? I have vi installed I thought… and I have started investigation. Crontab is looking for the vi file in a wrong place. To fix it run this commands:

su

give it a root password.

ln -s /bin/vi /usr/bin/vi

exit

crontab -e

Crontab errors and fix snapshot

You will be able to add entries ;).

Hope this helps somebody someday.

Andy

AndrzejL

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