how to use crontab and cron.daily

[Ed Greshko]

nigel henry wrote:
> On Friday 07 July 2006 22:43, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> nigel henry wrote:
>>>> Hi. I'm interested in setting up a cronjob. I'm using FC2, and using
>>>> the working example, crontab -l returned "no crontab for
>>>> <user-name>" , so using the suggested syntax I added myself to
>>>> /etc/cron.allow, but trying crontab -l still get the same result.
> Use crontab -e to edit your crontab.  This will open your editor
> (specified by the $VISUAL or $EDITOR variables) where you can
> create/edit as you like.  When you exit, your crontab will be
> installed.  User crontabs are stored in /var/spoool/cron/$USER, IIRC.
> 
>> Right. OK. Thanks to you Todd, and to Mikkel. I don't expect anyone to hold my 
>> hand through this, but crontab -e brings up a blank page with some short line 
>> markers on the left side, and "/tmp/crontab.3449" OL, OC at the bottom of the 
>> page. How do I find out which editor this is using? I've used nano a bit, but 
>> not vi, or emacs. I've been through man 5 crontab a few times, but it only 
>> shows you the layout for setting up crontab.
> 
>> A couple of hints would be usefull.

It brings up the editor specified in your environment variable EDITOR.
Normally this is vi.  You can change your environment to whatever editor
you are comfortable using.

Ed