On Saturday 08 July 2006 21:35, Todd Zullinger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > nigel henry wrote: > > Next su'ed to root, and with Gedit, went to /var/spool/cron/$USER, > > and changed the time for this crontab to be run, like 2 mins later > > to test it, and ignoring the "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE". > > Why would you do that instead of just running crontab -e as your > regular user? If you do edit the file directly as root, just be sure > that your editor won't mangle the permissions on you. Then you'd have > trouble editing them using crontab sometime later. Sorry. I wrongly presumed that crontab -e would set up a new crontab. The -e (edit) should have made me aware that it would only access an already created crontab using my user name. I won't make that error again. > > > One last ? Which file did I edit when I ran export EDITOR=nano. I've > > looked around the filesystem but can't find it. > > You weren't editing any file with that command. What that did is > modified your shell environment. If you want to ensure that nano is > always your editor, open up ~/.bash_profile and add a line to export > EDITOR=nano. Ok. Just ran crontab -e, and again have got my newly created crontab, but using vi, so presumably export EDITOR=nano was a one shot thing. I have the vi cheat sheet, but I think you have to be using it all the time to get really used to working with it, and probably the same goes for emacs. I don't use text mode text editors much, and nano is for me the easier to use. I'll edit ~/bash_profile and set nano as the editor to be used. Thanks for the advice. Nigel. > > - -- > Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp > ====================================================================== > Remember, there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending > over. > -- Frank Zappa > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. > > iG0EARECAC0FAkSwCR4mGGh0dHA6Ly93d3cucG9ib3guY29tL350bXovcGdwL3Rt > ei5hc2MACgkQuv+09NZUB1ou7gCfYhymnpgwZ8UF4yhcOCoXTDcrteIAnRUpwrR1 > ZwkLCOHvIKAaxI1gLOrH > =2mYl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
