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Re: Trouble creating crontab
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +0000, Will Parsons wrote:
>>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
>
> I always just use the toggle switches on the front panel of my computer.
>
> Much easier.
Was that really necessary? The procedure I use may very well be easier
than figuring out the right thing to do to invoke one's editor of choice
with the -e option. In my case, I prefer to explicitly to export the
crontab table into a file so that I can put it into revision control. At
any rate, answering an explicit question from the OP hardly deserves a
display of sarcasm.
--
Will
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