Re: Trouble with cron
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:37 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> cothrige wrote:
> > I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a
> > cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then
> > added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there
> > ready to go. However, this is not working in Debian. Cron is
> > installed and running, but when I enter the command and save it
> > crontab -l lists nothing at all, and nothing runs. Is there some step
> > I am overlooking? I have never had to do otherwise before, and have
> > tried reading online for Debian specific tips, but so far everything
> > comes back the same as I would expect. But, still, no cronjob.
> >
> > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Hello Patrick,
>
> debian's crontab works (almost) like with any other distribution.
>
> Which editor are you using? Please do a
> ll /etc/alternatives/editor
>
> On my system it shows
> johannes2:/etc/alternatives# ll /etc/alternatives/editor
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2006-09-25 09:05 /etc/alternatives/editor ->
> /bin/nano
>
> since I configured nano as the default editor. I suspect that you might
> unknowingly run an unfamiliar editor and might unknowingly quit without
> saving.
>
> You can change it to your favourite editor (provided it is installed) by
> running
>
> update-alternatives --config editor
>
> In contrast to other distributions, in debian one can configure
> different alternatives for common tasks.
>
> On my sytem, eg., there are 6 alternatives for an editor and
> 3 alternatives for different versions of ghostscript.
>
> HTH, regards Johannes
>
>
Good point Johannes. You can also check $EDITOR and $VISUAL which
over-ride the 'alternatives'.
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