Re: cron on 10.5.2 server

In article <qsdn14lsvbguema6kjus3dfma4gt13tm6u@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Fri, 02 May 2008 17:53:42 -0500, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
> >1. The BASH profile file should be named .bash_profile - note the
period 
> >character at the beginning. If the file is not named correctly, and
does 
> >not exist in your home folder, BASH will not read it.
> 
> I tried to rename it from the finder, but failed.  So I saved it from
> TextWrangler, and it worked.  So I will put in your code, test it, and
> then copy it to my iPod for the other guy's computer.

This whole notion of using GUI tools to edit command-line configuration 
files is ass backwards if you want my opinion. If you want to learn 
about the command line, then you need to invest enough time and energy 
to learn enough about it to use it.

In this case, all you need to do is learn *a* command-line text editor.  
There are *plenty* from which to choose, and most are viewed by many to 
be much more user-friendly than vi/vim - one that comes to mind is 
'pico'. Perhaps you should try using pico to create / edit these files:

To edit the .bash_profile file:

     pico ~/.bash_profile

Add this to the file:

     ex****t ENV=~/.bashrc
     if test -f ~/.bashrc; then
          . ~/.bashrc
     fi

To edit the .bashrc file:

     pico ~/.bashrc

Add this to file:

     ex****t EDITOR=/usr/bin/pico

Then close the terminal window and open a new one. Now your command-line 
editor should be 'pico'. To verify that, enter this command:

     echo $EDITOR

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