Miark wrote: > > > Wouldn't > > > > crontab -e > > > > be much easier? This edits your personal crontab and after saving it, cron > > will pick up the revised version and run that. This way cron will also pick > > it up after a reboot. Btw, crontab -l will list the current cron jobs you > > have set up. > > It probably would if the editor were set up right ;-) I use MicroEmacs, > but crontab -e always invokes the Devil, er, vi. I just never got > around to figuring out how to make it us uemacs.
put this line in your .bashrc export EDITOR=emacs lo and behold, crontab -e should then invoke the kitchen sink instead of the devil :o) Thank You, Regards, mario
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