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Re: Trouble creating crontab


Paul Mead wrote:
> "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> writes:
>
>> Not necessarily.
>>
>> <http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids>
>>
>> You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd
>> prefer not to track down the permission issues with NT Emacs and Cygwin.
>
> I'd love to  use whatever works, I've got no problem using Cygwin emacs
> or Vim but for some reason, crontab -e insists on firing up a new
> instance of NT Emacs. 
>
> Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e?

Sure.  I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used
crontab -e.  What I do:

crontab -l > crontab.lst
edit crontab.lst
crontab crontab.lst

-- 
Will


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