Cliff Pratt wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
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.
Some environments prefer you use sudo, even if it's sudo -s, so that what you do is logged.
That's fine unless you have 100s of machines to administer. If you have 100 machines do you a) set all the root passwords to the same, or b) maintain a manual file of logins.
Or even a few... if the one you screw up on is a production server, or one that the developers are going nuts on, or is about to be used for a presentation to upper management, and you can't take it down to single user....
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