On Saturday 08 July 2006 01:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > nigel henry wrote: > > On Friday 07 July 2006 22:43, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > Use crontab -e to edit your crontab. This will open your editor > > (specified by the $VISUAL or $EDITOR variables) where you can > > create/edit as you like. When you exit, your crontab will be > > installed. User crontabs are stored in /var/spoool/cron/$USER, IIRC. > > > >> Right. OK. Thanks to you Todd, and to Mikkel. I don't expect anyone to > >> hold my hand through this, but crontab -e brings up a blank page with > >> some short line markers on the left side, and "/tmp/crontab.3449" OL, OC > >> at the bottom of the page. How do I find out which editor this is using? > >> I've used nano a bit, but not vi, or emacs. I've been through man 5 > >> crontab a few times, but it only shows you the layout for setting up > >> crontab. > >> > >> A couple of hints would be usefull. > > If you have not changed things, you are using a version of vi. You > can check that by running "echo $EDITOR" and "echo $VISUAL". If > nether command returns anything, then you have not set the editor to > use, so it defaults to vi. If you want to use Nano, then try running > "export EDITOR=nano" before running "crontab -e". For the format you > need in the file, try "man 5 crontab" and see if that helps.. > > Mikkel Thanks Mikkel, and you other guys. I'll set up nano as the editor tomorrow as it's gone 2:25 am here in France, and I'm losing the plot a bit. Nigel. > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
