Solaris

When i am trying to open crontab throught command crontab -e. It is not opening?
OUTPUT:

Code:

# crontab -e
sh: vim: not found

The crontab file was not changed.

Please let me know how to open and edit it???

Maybe you need to change the value of EDITOR?

Try with this ..

Code:

$ export EDITOR=vi
$ crontab -e

thanks its working!!!
Can you tell me " eport=vi" it is the command for installing vi edtior??
1. it works only if we have already installed it
2. for exporting other editors also we do sme thing?(only if that is installed)

EDITOR is a variable that tells crontab what program to use to edit the user's crontab file. That program has to be installed, yes (hence your error about vim not found).

export makes the variable (EDITOR) available to things that you run from your shell (in this case the crontab program).

It wasn't necessary to export EDITOR in this case, as the variable was already exported, but that's another matter.

I think you need to modify ~/.bashrc to make that change permanent.

let me modify something in this post.

If you are on a "bash" shell then you can use the command

Code:

EXPORT EDITOR=vi

before running

Code:

crontab -e

if you are on "tcsh" promt you should use

Code:

setenv EDITOR vi

before editing your cron .

Cheers.