> > Personally I don't like crontab -e because the editor variable needs > to be > > set. Also there's no backup if you make a mistake. Instead, I like > to use > > "crontab -l > .crontab" and then "vi .crontab" and then "crontab > .crontab" > > This was fixed three years ago (snv_39, S10u5).
It's different from system to system. If you don't set the variable, you never know what you're going to get. Solaris, RHEL, Mac OSX, you name it... Also different from system to system, is which shell will be used, and how it will be invoked. And again, different in cron versus at. I like to take simple steps to make the outcome of all my actions predictable. This means, amongst other things, crontab -l > .crontab ; vi .crontab ; crontab .crontab It works on 100% of systems. No thinking (or guessing) required. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
