Re: [cobalt-users] crontab entry

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> 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?

He is "exporting" or "setting up" the variable "VISUAL" so pico is the
editor used when he edits his crontab directly (bad to edit direct)

when he runs ./cron it will allow him to edit his crontab with pico instead
of vi.