On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 17:12, nigel henry wrote: > After reading Todd's comment I ran crontab -e , and > sure enough my created crontab was there, but using vi, so as you've said, > running export EDITOR=nano is only a one shot thing, and then reverts to the > default, in this case vi. I've now changed the editor in ~/bash_profile to > nano. An even more one-off approach is to get a copy with: crontab -l >filename edit with the editor you like today, maybe: nedit filename and re-install with: crontab filename -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx