On Sat 10 Mar 2007 09:19:24 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > crontab -e inherits the EDITOR variable from your environment. If you > want to use a different editor, do something like: > > EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano crontab -e
Actually, no. That's what it should be doing because it starts an editor to modify a file, but it doesn't. It uses VISUAL, which is the program used to display a read-only file. The reason for crontab using VISUAL instead of EDITOR must be somewhere in the mist of unix time. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
