Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-01-25, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > I used to think that, but a password is almost always recoverable, on > more or less any Linux system. In the San Francisco case, the passwords in question were for Cisco routers and other networking equipment. Those are probably much harder to recover/reset

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:34 AM, wrote: > > What, you're forgetting, was it LA or SF, that just had that happen very > publicly, when that admin left and didn't want to tell the admins the > passwords, a couple of years ago? > > No. A manager should *always* have the written passwords, somewhere,

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-01-24, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > What, you're forgetting, was it LA or SF, that just had that happen very > publicly, when that admin left and didn't want to tell the admins the > passwords, a couple of years ago? It was San Francisco. Here are some stories on it; I'm sure DDG can find

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/24/2013 10:34 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 03:53 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz >>> wrote: On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread m . roth
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/23/2013 03:53 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz >> wrote: >>> On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >>> I don't use sudo. If I ne

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/23/2013 03:53 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread m . roth
Cliff Pratt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? > > i want to e

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? i want to edit my cron jobs with other

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >>> How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? >>> >>> i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi. >> From a terminal window: >> >> su >> gedit

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread m . roth
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >> >> How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? >> >> i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi. > > From a terminal window: > > su > gedit /etc/crontab & > > I do it all the time. I suppose th

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > hi, > > How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? > > i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi. From a terminal window: su gedit /etc/crontab & I do it all the time. I suppose there is a one line variant with sud

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 23.01.2013 um 13:13 schrieb Adekoya Adekunle : > i noticed something now. i setup a cron job with crontab -e on a local > machine and things work fine. i logged into a remote machine with SSH and > also setup the same job with crontab -e and things dont work > > what could be the cause ? c

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Adekoya Adekunle
i noticed something now. i setup a cron job with crontab -e on a local machine and things work fine. i logged into a remote machine with SSH and also setup the same job with crontab -e and things dont work what could be the cause ? could the reason be related to the difference between crontab

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/23/2013 05:41 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > i tried this(gedit /etc/crontab). it loads a file. the content of this > file is different from what i have in crontab -e. why the difference ? > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> >> Am 23.01.2013 12:23, schrieb Ade

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Adekoya Adekunle
i tried this(gedit /etc/crontab). it loads a file. the content of this file is different from what i have in crontab -e. why the difference ? On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 23.01.2013 12:23, schrieb Adekoya Adekunle: > > hi, > > > > How can I open crontab with

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/23/2013 05:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > hi, > > How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ? > > i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/how-to-change-the-default-crontab-editor-395750/ http://osxdaily.com/