Re: [foxboro] Editing Crontab
- From: "Doucet, Terrence" <tdoucet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:41:35 -0500
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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