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mandrei99

Post subject: How to change crontab editor in Debian Linux | Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:04 am

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How to change crontab editor in Debian Linux

How to change crontab editor in Debian Linux - using update-alternatives

Code:

$ sudo update-alternatives --config editor
There are 3 choices for the alternative editor (providing /usr/bin/editor).

  Selection    Path                Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /bin/nano            40        auto mode
  1            /bin/nano            40        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/vim.basic   30        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/vim.tiny    10        manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 3
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.tiny to provide /usr/bin/editor (editor) in manual mode

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tsuchan

Post subject: Re: How to change crontab editor in Debian Linux | Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:53 pm

Nothing I could do persuaded the editor to work in vi, even though the asterisked value was already option 2. So I un-installed nano. That worked.

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