howto change the editor of crontab

maxut · 08-27-2004, 08:37 AM

hy all,
how can i assing mcedit to the default editor instead of vi when i type "crontab -e" ?

thnx

jailbait · 08-27-2004, 10:39 AM

"how can i assing mcedit to the default editor instead of vi when i type "crontab -e" ?"

Try setting the editor variable.
EDITOR=mcedit

If that works OK then put the command in /etc/rc.local to make it a permanent change.

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michaelk · 08-27-2004, 04:10 PM

Or better yet add the EDITOR environment variable to your users .bash_profile.

maxut · 08-28-2004, 01:30 AM

thanks for reply.

it doesnt work. am i missing something?

[mesut@teknik mesut]$ cat .bash_profile
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
EDITOR=/usr/bin/mcedit
export EDITOR
export PATH
unset USERNAME

maxut · 08-28-2004, 04:03 AM

ok. it is done.

i added the following line into .bash_profile
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/mcedit

thnx again.