Re: cron error messages

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:14:16PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:34, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> > <much snippage>
> > Graeme, are you saying you don't need this?  You don't have routers or
> > any such?  Then punt it.
> > 
> > Was I correct that the command is in your personal (graeme) crontab?
> > If so, just
> > 
> >   crontab -e
> > 
> Hi Bob, yep, that's what I'm saying. I don't need it. Don't have any
> routers, no nics only 2 serial ports. One is for my UPS, the other my
> modem. I have absolutely no idea how it got into my crontab so, not
> being able to sort it out I simply did a crontab -e

That's how you "get into your crontab".  "man crontab" for more info.
The default editor is <shudder> vi, but if you prefer another editor
such as "pico" (part of the pine RPM) or Emacs, you can set the
environment variable EDITOR to it, e.g.

  export EDITOR=pico

Then when you do "crontab -e", you get pico for an editor.

> and then put a # at
> the beginning of the line. No more problems and if I ever need it in the
> future its still there.
> 
> Thank you very much for all your help. Its nice having you on the other
> end of the network.

Glad I could help.

> -- 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Graeme Nichols
> 
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Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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