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Topic: Cron - Serious problems getting it running, Doesn't ever seem to see Crontab< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Jan. 29 2006,17:55 QUOTE
So I figure I'm kinda smart, I got Cron with Synaptic, not  hard.
However, I cannot seem to to find where it is looking for crontab. I tried /etc/crontab and /var/spool/cron  

Is it possible that because I have been loading it with sudo cron at a shell window that it isn't working and needs to be added to the  rc.5 ?

I tried crontab -e to create a personal file for my user but the ed Editor doesn't exist and the editors that I know how to use and/or associate with crontab ask for a save location which again, doesn't help.

Any help is appreciated
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Posted: Jan. 29 2006,22:55 QUOTE
try setting the VISUAL shell variable to the editor you want:

export VISUAL=beaver
crontab -e

I believe the file is /etc/crontab
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