[CentOS] crontab and gedit

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote:
> hi,
>
> 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.