'crontab -e' only shows a number

Hi All

I just tried to change my 'root' crontab but I got the following result;

bash-2.03# crontab -e

1341

and then nothing. I can exit with Ctrl + D.

Any suggestion what might be the reason I cannot edit it ?

Thnx a lot

LuCa

Update: Its on a Solaris 8 sparc system

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abcde-tje

[375 byte] By [abcde-tje] at [2007-11-26 9:39:23]

# 1

% man crontab

[...]

tion.The environment variable EDITOR determines

which editor is invoked with the -e option. The

default editor is ed(1).

[...]

You are seeing the output of 'ed'. ^D and 'q<ENTER>' will both exit. You can either learn 'ed' or change your EDITOR to something like 'vi'.

The number by the way is the size of the file.

% wc /etc/motd

1849 /etc/motd

% ed /etc/motd

Darren

Darren_Dunham at 2007-7-7 0:35:23 >

# 2

thnx, that was all I needed to know :)

abcdetje at 2007-7-7 0:35:23 >

# 3

EDITOR=vi or setenv EDITOR vi should do itMessage was edited by: epruett

epruett at 2007-7-7 0:35:23 >

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