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[Pueblo Native <pueblonative@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Assuming you're have vi set as your editor for your crontab, here's a 
quick reference guide for vi:
http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/vi.html
dwain wrote:
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] writing a crontab and don't know where to put it
> Date: Tuesday 10 April 2007 02:14
> From: Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Yhea, it's good fun to be able to control the OS instead of the OS
> controlling you :-)
>
> Kind of, but I can't create the cron tab with:
> crontab -e 27 4,16 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron
>
> When I did a crontab ls -l it returned no crontab for root.  When I do 
> crontab -e it appears to open an editor.  I paste the above code it doesn't 
> add the numbers or "*".  I also find no way to save the crontab.
>
> Please help me tame this snarling beast so I can update automatically f-prot.
>
> Cheers,
> Dwain
>   

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