Just set your EDITOR variable to whatever you want. If you set EDITOR=emacs; export EDITOR then you will be able to use emacs when you type crontab -e. -Paul Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > If you absolutely must edit the file (or you don't want to use vi) > then do the following: > > crontab -l /tmp/crontab > emacs /tmp/crontab > crontab /tmp/crontab > > Otherwise, like what Vidiot said below, Mikkel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: recipient.list.not.shown > Subject: Re: cron > > > >On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > >> >I'm having trouble getting cron to exec under RH 6.1. Even > >> >a simple job to 'ls' every minute does not fly as shown below. > >> >If I put a script in /etc/cron.hourly that works though. > >> >Thanks for any tips. > > > >You probably know this, but after editing /etc/crontab you need to restart > >cron (or send -HUP to it) to make it read the changes. Putting something > >in /etc/cron.* doesn't need this. > > > >Hossein > > First off, you shouldn't be editing /etc/crontab. If you have jobs you want > to run as root, do the following as root: > > crontab -e > > Now add, or change, what you want. > > The same thing applies as users. > > MB > -- > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have > programmed it to eliminate the competition. Bart: You mean like > Microsoft? Lisa: Exactly. [The Simpsons - 12/18/99] > Visit - URL:http://www.vidiot.com/ (Your link to Star Trek and UPN) > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. -- 9:14am up 21:29, 2 users, load average: 0.40, 0.33, 0.26 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
