Binand Raj S. wrote:
> 1. RedHat (and possibly other Linux distros) already have a cron entry
> to run updatedb. In RH, it is /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron.
i use mandrake and i have this in /etc/cron.daily/. had no idea about
redhat, and thought that instead of confusing him by putting an entry
into cron.daily, just tell him a little of cron uses.
>
> 2. Instead of giving a vi(1) tutorial, you can also try
>
> VISUAL=pico crontab -e
thanks a ton!, yu don't know how much i missed pico for modifying cron.
thanks a lot :)
>
> Binand
>
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