On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote:
>>>> How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor ?
>>>>
>>>> i want to edit my cron jobs with other editors beside vi.
>>> From a terminal window:
>>>
>>> su
>>> gedit /etc/crontab &
>>>
>>> I do it all the time. I suppose there is a one line variant with sudo,
>>> but I tend to have a root terminal open for lots of different things.
>> Bad idea. Very much depreciated. You should edit crontab using -e [1], and
>> sudoers with visudo.
>>
>> 1] to use a different editor, from the man pages:
>> ENVIRONMENT
>>
>> VISUAL Invoked by visudo as the editor to use
>>
>> EDITOR Used by visudo if VISUAL is not set
>>
>> Using the correct tool invokes syntax checking *before* it's saved. If you
>> don't have root password, you could seriously be up the creek if you make
>> a typo in sudoers....
>
> Serious typos abound. The most serious one I did was to fstab once upon
> a time.
>
> I don't use sudo. If I need root changes, I better have the root
> password to use su. If I don't have the root password, then it is
> either not my system to change, or I have a serious problem indeed.
>
That's fine unless you have 100s of machines to administer. If you
have 100 machines do you a) set all the root passwords to the same, or
b) maintain a manual file of logins.
Cheers,
Cliff
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