I have got everything working now except for one thing. I realized that my knowledge of VI which is the editor crontab is using, is rather dotted. After I get out of insert mode with escape, how do I get to the place where I can type wq to tell it to write and quit? Thanks, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Alex Snow Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:03 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Help with date and redhat 9 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? _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
