did you set the VISUAL and EDITOR variables to your favorite editor? If you wanted to use nano for example you'd do export VISUAL=/usr/bin/nano export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano note that EDITOR and VISUAL are in all caps. On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:21:37PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > Wel I got rdate to work, but now I can't get crontab to work. And I am > on a cable connection and I keep the redhat box up continuously. I boot > it occasionally on a weekly or byweekly basis, but otherwise I just keep > it up and running, so that should be ok. I would probably schedule the > chron for daily and also at startup and shutdown, but I have no clue how > to do that. > > Thanks, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number > of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Chuck Hallenbeck > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:04 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: RE: Help with date and redhat 9 > > > > Sima, > > I don't believe netdate is slackware specific, but I have no experience > with other distros, so I cannot say how common it is. > > If you are using a dialup connection you might want to be careful about > putting your network time command in a crontab, since it would try to > execute whether or not you are connected when its scheduled time came > around. That is why I put mine in the ip-up script instead of crontab. > That script only executes when a ppp connection is established. I am not > sure it is all that necessary to get the correct time every hour either, > unless you are supervising a space launch or something <smile>. The > thing is, the kernel time mechanism is much more accurate than the > battery operated hardware clock, and ought not to drift much at all over > the period of a day. Perhaps it would matter more if your system is up > continuously for long periods. I boot up each morning and bring my > system down at night, which is when my hardware clock gets set from the > time the kernel is keeping. > > Chuck > > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Sina Bahram wrote: > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > The only one of those I have is rdate. I'm going to go see if I can > > figure out how to pass a server or multiple servers to it. and then > > figure out how to add it to the chron like Alex was talking about. > > > > Take care, > > Sina > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (3% of Full) > Get my public key from website, http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
