Just a quick note, Grafpup doesn't come with 'cron' as standard.
If you want to install cron (as I did), the vixie-cron is a good package. You will need to compile from source.
My tip is to change the shell variable EDITOR to an editor that is actually on the system, I am using vi (which can also be compiled from source).
The best way to achieve this is to over-ride the default editor setting (which is 'mp', not supplied with Grafpup) by creating (or edit if it already exists) /etc/profile.local to include the definition:
I guess you could also use leafpad, but it's an X application and sometimes I work over SSH connections, in text mode.
