Hi,

I have been using crontab for a while now... but needed edit the
existing job in cron...
However heres the issue..
If I issue crontab -e, the temp file which allows the input doesnt
seem to be opening.  Though crontab -l indicates the current job; the
-
e option doesnt open the file


<snips>


crontab -l
00 20 * * * /auto/tftpboot-users/mshirali/MDDTS/query1.mshirali


However now crontab -e wont let me do any editing.. I see the
following when I issue it:
crontab -e
65


?


?
<snips>
Any help will be appreciated

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mihirshirali@gmail.com writes:

> However now crontab -e wont let me do any editing..

It does let you do editing, you just don't realize that.

> I see the following when I issue it:
> crontab -e
> 65
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> ?

Try "man ed".

> Any help will be appreciated

Since it's unlikely that you'll want to learn 'ed', solution is to

export VISUAL=vi

Cheers,
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On Mar 21, 11:23 am, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov-...@charter.net>
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> mihirshir...@gmail.com writes: 
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> It does let you do editing, you just don't realize that.
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> Since it's unlikely that you'll want to learn 'ed', solution is to
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> Cheers,
> --
> In order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion.
> Remove /-nsp/ for email.

Hi Paul,

This doesnt seem to be working.. I tried both the options. Since
crontab -l already lists my older job, when I issue a crontab -e
shouldn 't I be able to view the older job.
I tried using esport VISUAL vi too... just doesn't seem to work ;(
Am I missing something ?

-Mihir

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On Mar 21, 12:07 pm, mihirshir...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 21, 11:23 am, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov-...@charter.net>
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> Hi Paul,
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> This doesnt seem to be working.. I tried both the options. Since
> crontab -l already lists my older job, when I issue a crontab -e
> shouldn 't I be able to view the older job.
> I tried using esport VISUAL vi too... just doesn't seem to work ;(
> Am I missing something ?
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I checked export VALUE=vi on linux based machine and it woeks fine.
However I was wondering how we will do the same in case of Solaris
machine as it doesnt help here.. and I need it to work there

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mihirshirali@gmail.com writes:

> On Mar 21, 11:23 am, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov-...@charter.net>
> wrote: 
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> Hi Paul,

> This doesnt seem to be working.. I tried both the options. Since
> crontab -l already lists my older job, when I issue a crontab -e
> shouldn 't I be able to view the older job.
> I tried using esport VISUAL vi too... just doesn't seem to work ;(
> Am I missing something ?

> -Mihir

try export EDITOR=vi
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On Mar 21, 2:00 pm, h...@use-reply-to.invalid (Horst Scheuermann)
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Hi Horst,

No luck with EDITOR=3Dvi too
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$ export EDITOR=3Dvi
EDITOR=3Dvi: is not an identifier

Tried using "export EDITOR vi" too...
Though the command is accepted.. I see the same issue

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On Mar 21, 5:55 am, mihirshir...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2:00 pm, h...@use-reply-to.invalid (Horst Scheuermann)
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> $ export EDITOR=3Dvi
> EDITOR=3Dvi: is not an identifier
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> Tried using "export EDITOR vi" too...
> Though the command is accepted.. I see the same issue

Maybe one of the following?
prompt$ EDITOR=3D/usr/bin/vi crontab -e
prompt$ EDITOR=3D`which vi` crontab -e

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:57:02 -0700, shakahshakah@gmail.com wrote:

 
That's a feature bash borrowed from ksh
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>   prompt$ EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi crontab -e
>   prompt$ EDITOR=`which vi` crontab -e

EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi;export EDITOR

HTH,
AvK

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mihirshirali@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2:00 pm, h...@use-reply-to.invalid (Horst Scheuermann)
> wrote: 
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> Hi Horst,
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> No luck with EDITOR=vi too
> <snip>
> $ export EDITOR=vi
> EDITOR=vi: is not an identifier
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> Tried using "export EDITOR vi" too...
> Though the command is accepted.. I see the same issue
>

export VARIABLE=value is korn shell (/bin/ksh) syntax.
root user has bourne shell per default (/bin/sh).
So you must do this in two steps. This works for both.
1. VARIABLE=value
2. export VARIABLE

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On Mar 22, 1:01 am, Frank Langelage <f...@lafr.de> wrote:
> mihirshir...@gmail.com wrote: 
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Hi All,

Thanks for all the inputs and pointers.. Its working fine now..
Guess.. it had to be done in two steps

-Mihir

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