On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Alex Dean wrote:
> Alex LeDonne wrote:
>
> >>From man crontab:
> > The -e option is used to edit the current crontab using the
> > editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment
> > variables. After you exit from the editor, the modified crontab
> > will be installed automatically.
> >
> >Set EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano in a startup script, or use VISUAL=emacs
> >before the command line, and crontab will use what you ask.
> >
> >
> >
> You can also just write your crontab in any editor you like, save it in
> a file, and do :
> prompt> crontab <yourfilename>
>
> This replaces your current crontab with the contents of your file.
This is a good example of how this topic got lost in this thread. Both of
these were already mentioned. :)
Jeremy C. Reed
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