Re: Setting the editor environment variable for crontabs in Fedora 2

["Keletso Keletso" <tswanakeppler@yahoo.co.in>]

Hi Luca, are you running fedora 2? I actually tried to
open the crontab using vi and it seems the default
editor for crontabs on my system is not set to vi. So
for example once the crontab has been opened i am not
able to save it using vi commands. so puting the same
exact line on .profile file should export an editor of
my choice. can i export nano?

 --- Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote: 
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 11:04 Keletso Keletso's cat
> walking on the keyboard  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hopefully someone can offer assistance here. I am
> > trying to edit user-defined crontabs which stored
> in
> > /var/spool/cron using crontab -e. Now I am being
> > informed I cannot use vi to edit those crontabs
> and
> > instead must extract and export a different editor
> > (pref VISUAL). Could anyone assist me with the
> steps
> > (e.g. which env profile file must i change to make
> > this accomodation and what is the script code).
> >
> 
> I'm using vi to edit crontab, but you can simply
> changing the editor doing:
> export EDITOR=emacs
> crontab -e
> that will start using emacs.
> You can add the export= line to you .profile (or
> .bash_profile) file. Why 
> aren't you using vi? It's quite fast for editing
> crontabs....
> 
> Luca
> 
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> Luca Ferrari,
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