Re: [foxboro] Editing Crontab

You can change the default editor for your shell.
 
For cshell edit  .cshrc        (note the period)
 
EDITOR=VI
 
so that when you enter the command
 
crontab -e
 
you will be using vi and not the "e" editor  which is a very difficult editor.
 
Terry
 
 
While the method you list will work, when you use crontab -e, you're
using the old "ed" editor.  When "ed" first came out it was considered
to be very user friendly - if it didn't understand something you typed
it said "?" <grin>.  My method will let you use vi or textedit on a
normal text file and then reload it to crontab when you're done.
It'd also be a good idea to save a copy of the crontab before changing
it - crontab -l > /opt/home/crontab.save or something similar
depending on where you normally save files to.

Cheers,

Kevin FitzGerrell



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