[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-3.0.1-9
Ehud Karni
ehud@unix.mvs.co.il
Sun Apr 20 19:53:00 GMT 2003
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:37:28 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>
> Yes, you can do that. That way programs like crontab will invoke your
> editor when they need to edit a file. However, be aware that such
> programs often expect certain behavior, for example, that the inode of the
> file doesn't change when it's edited (i.e., the file is written in place).
This can be easily done with a script (use its name for $EDITOR):
#!/bin/sh
cp $1 /temp/crontab/name # copy to a temp file
<YOUR_EDITOR> /temp/crontab/name # edit it (e.g. with emacs)
cat /temp/crontab/name > $1 # save as original file (and inode)
Ehud.
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