On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote:
How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ?
i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi.
From a terminal window:
su gedit /etc/crontab &
I do it all the time. I suppose there is a one line variant with sudo, but I tend to have a root terminal open for lots of different things.
Bad idea. Very much depreciated. You should edit crontab using -e [1], and sudoers with visudo.
1] to use a different editor, from the man pages: ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL Invoked by visudo as the editor to use EDITOR Used by visudo if VISUAL is not setUsing the correct tool invokes syntax checking *before* it's saved. If you don't have root password, you could seriously be up the creek if you make a typo in sudoers....
Serious typos abound. The most serious one I did was to fstab once upon a time.
I don't use sudo. If I need root changes, I better have the root password to use su. If I don't have the root password, then it is either not my system to change, or I have a serious problem indeed.