On 23 Mar 2013 at 14:43, Joe Zeff wrote: Date sent: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:43:44 -0700 From: Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Problem with cron > On 03/23/2013 11:56 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > > One of those things that can bite you in the butt is that the > > environment for /bin/sh might be different than than in /bin/bash, > > especially as invoked by cron. > > Somebody suggested adding something new to crontab and seeing if it > works. I tried it. Alas, even though I have both EDITOR and VISUAL > set in both .bashrc and .bash_profile, crontab -e insists on invoking > vi, an editor that I despise, and refuse to learn. (I prefer nano, > and have that set as my default editor for EVERYTHING in a terminal.) > Does anybody know how to force crontab to do what I want, not what > it's author wants? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx What is showing in the /var/log/cron file? > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? > Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 14241123.577007 | EINSTEIN 10516707.209852 ROSETTA 6622686.028717 | ABC 15903416.868091 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
