Re: cron on 10.5.2 server

In message <jollyroger-482AD1.16064124042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
  Jolly <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> We're talking about using crontab to edit cron tables, and vi/vim has 
> beeen the default editor for crontab for, like forever.

Except when it's not.

crontab actually has no default editor, it simply uses the EDITOR 
defined in your environment settings.

crontab is a little retarded with the whole swapfile issue, and that can
be an issue in any EDITOR that does the 'right thing' and has you work
and edit a swapfile instead of the original.  Most other utilities
(visudo, for example) do not have this retarded behavior.

And yeah, I now it's supposed to be more secure.  And in some marginal
edge case, I'm sure it is. 99.999% of the time, it's just an annoyance
though.


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