X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_73,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Will Parsons Subject: Re: Trouble creating crontab Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <87skgwy4rb.fsf@gmail.com> <4A5F5A73.1070708@cygwin.com> <87ocrky34v.fsf@gmail.com> <4A5F5EDD.4080001@cygwin.com> <87k528y1nb.fsf@gmail.com> <20090716215248.GA28657@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: ellenophilos@yahoo.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. Was that really necessary? The procedure I use may very well be easier than figuring out the right thing to do to invoke one's editor of choice with the -e option. In my case, I prefer to explicitly to export the crontab table into a file so that I can put it into revision control. At any rate, answering an explicit question from the OP hardly deserves a display of sarcasm. -- Will -- 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