System Adm » debian http://www.system.adm.br Some IT Tips (Linux, Unix, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, etc). Wed, 19 May 2010 20:11:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Using vi as crontab editor http://www.system.adm.br/2009/04/using-vi-as-crontab-editor/ http://www.system.adm.br/2009/04/using-vi-as-crontab-editor/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:37:00 +0000 Lincoln Zuljewic Silva http://www.system.adm.br/?p=42 The default Debian installation use a non-vi editor when you try to use crontab (ie: “crontab -e”).

To change it to vi, you should do the following:

# rm -f /etc/alternatives/editor ln -s /usr/bin/vi /etc/alternatives/editor

 

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