How to Change the Crontab Editor?

ACMer

11 years ago

The crontab is the job scheduler under Linux. You can set any jobs running from 1 minute to 1 year or longer. To edit the jobs, you type in crontab -e.

The text-editor is default to nano but you can already change by using

export VISUAL=vim

Each line specifies a job and the # starts a comment.

Another method is to run select-editor

root@uploadbeta:~$ select-editor

Select an editor.  To change later, run 'select-editor'.
  1. /bin/ed
  2. /bin/nano        <---- easiest
  3. /usr/bin/vim.basic
  4. /usr/bin/vim.tiny

Choose 1-4 [2]:

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