On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.roth at 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 set > > Using 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.