how to use crontab and cron.daily

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 17:12, nigel henry wrote:

> After reading Todd's comment I ran crontab -e , and 
> sure enough my created crontab was there, but using vi, so as you've said, 
> running export EDITOR=nano is only a one shot thing, and then reverts to the 
> default, in this case vi. I've now changed the editor in ~/bash_profile to 
> nano.

An even more one-off approach is to get a copy with:
  crontab -l >filename
edit with the editor you like today, maybe:
 nedit filename
and re-install with:
 crontab filename

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  Les Mikesell
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