Re: cron on 10.5.2 server

In article <67bssbF2o7r10U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On 2008-04-24 17:40:35 +0100, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> 
> > In article <67bohcF2o2643U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  Chris Ridd <chrisridd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2008-04-24 16:24:54 +0100, Robert Peirce
> >> <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> >> 
> >>> I hate to do that but you are probably correct.  So far we have only
> >>> found the one problem, but there could be more.  Actually, cron
works
> >>> fine.  It is crontab -e that is acting up, and I guess that means it
is
> >>> vim that is acting up.
> >> 
> >> I'm shocked that no-one's suggested using emacs yet ;-)
> > 
> > Why?  emacs isn't available on all ditributions and installations of
> > *nix. In comparison, vi/vim is almost always there, and it's the
default
> > editor in many, many installations.
> 
> Who cares about other Unixes, we're talking about OS X.

We're talking about using crontab to edit cron tables, and vi/vim has 
beeen the default editor for crontab for, like forever.

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