Help with date and redhat 9

[Sina Bahram]

I have got everything working now except for one thing. I realized that
my knowledge of VI which is the editor crontab is using, is rather
dotted.

After I get out of insert mode with escape, how do I get to the place
where I can type wq to tell it to write and quit?

Thanks,
Sina

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-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Alex Snow
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:03 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Help with date and redhat 9


did you set the VISUAL and EDITOR variables to your favorite editor? 
If you wanted to use nano for example you'd do
export VISUAL=/usr/bin/nano
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
note that EDITOR and VISUAL are in all caps.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 
07:21:37PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote:
> Wel I got rdate to work, but now I can't get crontab to work. And I am

> on a cable connection and I keep the redhat box up continuously. I 
> boot it occasionally on a weekly or byweekly basis, but otherwise I 
> just keep it up and running, so that should be ok. I would probably 
> schedule the chron for daily and also at startup and shutdown, but I 
> have no clue how to do that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sina
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Chuck Hallenbeck
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:04 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: RE: Help with date and redhat 9
> 
> 
> 
> Sima,
> 
> I don't believe netdate is slackware specific, but I have no 
> experience with other distros, so I cannot say how common it is.
> 
> If you are using a dialup connection you might want to be careful 
> about putting your network time command in a crontab, since it would 
> try to execute whether or not you are connected when its scheduled 
> time came around. That is why I put mine in the ip-up script instead 
> of crontab. That script only executes when a ppp connection is 
> established. I am not sure it is all that necessary to get the correct

> time every hour either, unless you are supervising a space launch or 
> something <smile>. The thing is, the kernel time mechanism is much 
> more accurate than the battery operated hardware clock, and ought not 
> to drift much at all over the period of a day. Perhaps it would matter

> more if your system is up continuously for long periods. I boot up 
> each morning and bring my system down at night, which is when my 
> hardware clock gets set from the time the kernel is keeping.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Sina Bahram wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your response.
> >
> > The only one of those I have is rdate. I'm going to go see if I can
> > figure out how to pass a server or multiple servers to it. and then 
> > figure out how to add it to the chron like Alex was talking about.
> >
> > Take care,
> > Sina
> 
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