Am 23.03.2013 22:43, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 03/23/2013 11:56 AM, Steven Stern wrote: >> One of those things that can bite you in the butt is that the >> environment for /bin/sh might be different than than in /bin/bash, >> especially as invoked by cron. > > Somebody suggested adding something new to crontab and seeing if it works. I > tried it. Alas, even though I have > both EDITOR and VISUAL set in both .bashrc and .bash_profile, crontab -e > insists on invoking vi, an editor that I > despise, and refuse to learn. (I prefer nano, and have that set as my > default editor for EVERYTHING in a > terminal.) Does anybody know how to force crontab to do what I want, not > what it's author wants?
why do you not simply place your cronjobs in /etc/cron.d/? i maintain a lot of servers with tons of cronjobs running as different users and never in my life called the contab-command
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