Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 09 October 2005 09:07 am, James Knott wrote:
James Knott wrote:
According to man(5) in SUSE 10, a crontab @reboot entry is supposed to run, when the computer boots. However, I can't seem to get it to do anything. Is there something I'm missing? Is there some magic incantation that I have to say?
tnx jk Forgot to mention, I'm editing /etc/crontab directly with vi, as that's apparently the only way to edit that file.
Nope.... set the env variable: EDITOR=/<path to your fav editor>
What I was referring to, was not the choice of editor, but the fact that the command "crontab -e" does not edit /etc/crontab. It edits the crontab file for the user running the command. Each user, including root, can have their own crontab file.