crontab -e 1

[ashley75]

Hi all,

when I do crontab -e , I can't get into the edit mode and it only return 273 with nothing else.

when I do crontab -l and the jobs are there.

Please help.

 

[KenCunningham]

What's your default EDITOR (echo $EDITOR). If it's not vi try:

export EDITOR=vi

and then try crontab -e again. Incidentally, crontab -e isn't the safest way to edit your crontab if you're new to the game. You could:

crontab -l > newcron

then vi (edit) newcron and apply it using:

crontab newcron

Good idea to keep a copy of the original crontab -l too, in case anything goes wrong.

 

[ashley75]

thanks