Editing Cron The Easy Way
January 10th, 2009
Whenever I used to try to edit my cron using ‘crontab -e’ I would get the following error.
Now I could try to change my editor settings, but with multiple systems and working with others that shared the same account, this wasn’t the best solution.
To edit the cron without having to rely on the editor settings I first get the cron into a text file to edit.
Then once I’ve made my changes all I had to do was import it back in.
It’s that easy and you even get a copy of the cron.txt for backup if you want to keep it.
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/elvis: No such file or directory crontab: "/usr/bin/elvis" exited with status 127
Now I could try to change my editor settings, but with multiple systems and working with others that shared the same account, this wasn’t the best solution.
To edit the cron without having to rely on the editor settings I first get the cron into a text file to edit.
crontab -l > cron.txt
Then once I’ve made my changes all I had to do was import it back in.
crontab cron.txt
It’s that easy and you even get a copy of the cron.txt for backup if you want to keep it.