X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:52:48 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Trouble creating crontab Message-ID: <20090716215248.GA28657@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <87skgwy4rb.fsf@gmail.com> <4A5F5A73.1070708@cygwin.com> <87ocrky34v.fsf@gmail.com> <4A5F5EDD.4080001@cygwin.com> <87k528y1nb.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +0000, Will Parsons wrote: >Paul Mead wrote: >>"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: >> >>>Not necessarily. >>> >>> >>> >>>You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd >>>prefer not to track down the permission issues with NT Emacs and >>>Cygwin. >> >>I'd love to use whatever works, I've got no problem using Cygwin emacs >>or Vim but for some reason, crontab -e insists on firing up a new >>instance of NT Emacs. >> >>Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e? > >Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used >crontab -e. What I do: > >crontab -l > crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst I always just use the toggle switches on the front panel of my computer. Much easier. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple