[cobalt-users] crontab entry

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

Hey generic guys,
Moving my clients' sites has made me quite aware of some things I've been
sitting here sighing about (I'll be sending out yet another email on how to
properly choose a POP user name vs. the alias for security reasons...); but
also has brought me some curiosities.

There are only two sites on the server that aren't working. I know that both
of these sites have been 'administrated' by a mutual friend of the sites'
owners, so it's something this guy is doing.
In an .htaccess file he's got AddType application entries for .php and
.html - which he doesn't need, because the server is already set for that.
He's also got a bunch of override php_value entries which he doesn't need,
because php.ini is already set to the values that he's got. So I'm still
trying to figure out why the sites work on the original server and not the
new one; even though all the settings are the same. Frustrating.

ANYWAY, in the one site he dabbles with, there is a 'cron' folder. In here,
there's a crontab file with the following entry:
VISUAL=/usr/bin/pico; export VISUAL; crontab -e

Can someone tell me what this is doing?  I've just begun dabbling with cron,
and to my untrained eye it looks like he's trying to echo back everything
that's been done with pico? I am clueless.

Thanks..
Befuddledly yours
Carrie