Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

I am not able to edit crontab.

Following is the comand that is being issued

$crontab -e
2764 ............ This is what I am able to see

But when I do
$crontab -l
List of all the crontab entry is displayed.

Also I am seeing one entry in my /etc/cron.d
prw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 10 12:29 FIFO

What does p stands for...... in permission section

Please suggest

Regards
Pankaj

When you specify the -e option, crontab invokes the editor specified in the environment variable EDITOR. If the variable is not set, crontab uses the vi editor.

Check the value of the variable EDITOR.


Jean-Pierre.

Hi
I checked the setting by echo command

$echo $EDITOR
vi

It shows it is vi, still crontab -e is not working .. it give some no like 2764

but when i do like this I am able to change the entry of my cromtab

$crontab < /path/of/the/textfile/which/has/cronentry/mycronentry.txt

Please suggest

Pankaj

Did you remember to

export EDITOR

after setting it to "vi"?

Also (if you're on a Sun box) crontabs will be in /var/spool/cron/crontabs.

Cheers
ZB

Hi

I exported the vi EDITOR also in .profile file, but again its showing some no when I issue $ crontab -e


Do we need to add magic line( #! /bin/sh ) in this file too

Please suggest

Pankaj

Does it work from the command line?

Code:

$ EDITOR=vi
$ export EDITOR
$ crontab -e

Cheers
ZB

Hi !!!

I solve this seeing previous posts........ Anyway thanks a lot

Regards
Pankaj