saving crontab jobs

wolfsar · 07-14-2009, 11:33 AM

Hello,

I am using red hat 9.0 and i am rather confused and asking if any others using RH9 ever had issues saving crontab jobs
I have been able to use crontab -e to create a empty cron editor and add things to it... but i do not see a save option, noted if you hit ins key it inserts what I type if i hit ins key a replace shows in the editor. Also noticed as i edit a crontab using -e it says something in the lines /tmp/crontab.some number I do not see the save option....

am i missing something? and my thanks

Wolfsar

repo · 07-14-2009, 12:50 PM

If it is vi

press

Quote:

ALT_: w q

wolfsar · 07-15-2009, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

If it is vi

press

not sure if it is vi all i know it is redhat 9.0 box set

repo · 07-15-2009, 01:55 PM

Did you tried
ALT_: w q ?

chrism01 · 07-15-2009, 07:44 PM

If that's RH9 (codename Shrike), that was discontinued years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redhat_Linux
You should really move up to a current system like Centos 5.3 (free version of RH Enterprise Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS) or Fedora 11 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system)

Incidentally, if the default editor is vi for editing crontabs (very common), then you just need to exit like this:

Press esc key to get cmd line

<esc>

should give a ':' prompt, then type 'x' <rtn>

So, altogether that's

<esc>:x<rtn>

which saves your edits.
Replace 'x' with 'q' to quit without saving.