Crontab attempt

[cleanair4me46]

I cant seem to create a cron job in my Solaris 10 server.

I tried crontab -e and it reponds with a 0 where I can add anything to it:

crontab -e
0

Please advise why I cant create a cron job in my cron file?

 

[Annihilannic]

If you have no EDITOR environment variable set, the default editor /usr/bin/ed is used. As you can see it has a very user-friendly interface.

You could use the following commands to add a cron job:

a
00 08 * * * /some/job > /some/logfile 2>&1
.
w
q

But I presume you would prefer to export EDITOR=vi (or your preferred editor) before running crontab -e. Perhaps do this in your .profile.

Annihilannic.