Re: [foxboro] crontab AP51D V6.1

To add even one more:

With "crontab -e" you edit the crontab for the current user, by default the 
"editor" ed is used however and not out beloved vi.
To change that:
In the bourne shell
# EDITOR=vi ; export EDITOR
and you are done

In the C-shell:
# setenv EDITOR vi
and you done here too.
May be an idea to change this in you environment file (.profile or .cshrc)

MAKE BACKUPS as standard procedure ;-)

Have a good weekend all,

Regards

Ron Deen
Invensys

On Friday 29 October 2004 15:02, Jaudon, Michael wrote:
> To add to what Duc stated...
>
> To be super safe you might want to copy "crontempfile" to
> "crontempfile.bak".
>
> Then VI "crontempfile".
>
> #crontab crontempfile
>
> If anything goes wrong you will have your original crontab file in
> "crontempfile.bak"
>
> This is just a suggestion.  Sometimes you learn the hard way.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 7:20 AM
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> Subject: Re: [foxboro] crontab AP51D V6.1
>
>
> While your suggestion of using -e to edit the crontab table is a valid =
> =3D
> one, I prefer to make my mistake in a temporary file. ;-)
>
> crontab -l > crontempfile
> vi crontempfile
>
> When you're ready to effect the change(s) to the cron table, run:
>
> crontab < crontempfile
>
> Duc
>
> --=3D20
> Duc M. Do
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> Carrollton Plant
> Carrollton, KY, US
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lieven Taleman
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 7:26 AM
> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] crontab AP51D V6.1
>
> On your Unix box in a VT100 terminal (as user root) type :
> > man crontab   # With this you will find all necessary information to
>
> manage your cron.
>
> > crontab -e    # This one opens a VI editor to make your changes
> > crontab -l    # Verify your changes
>
> Greetings,
> Lieven Taleman
> B.V.B.A TALSOFT - Belgium
> E-mail : lieven.taleman@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]Namens Mougeot, Thierry T SPM-SMUC
> Verzonden: vrijdag 29 oktober 2004 13:08
> Aan: Cassandra Foxboro (E-mail)
> Onderwerp: [foxboro] crontab AP51D V6.1
>
>
> Hi list ,
> I don't remember the way to change a crontab file . What procedure must
> =3D one follow to change this file ? Thanks
>
>
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