On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > > 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. > 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. Cheers, Cliff