setting a cron job

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:59:57PM +0000, Jamie Griffin wrote:
> 
> I found an article which says to use 'crontab -e' and add an
> appropriate line to a text file. However, when i tried this i had a
> strange error message so aborted the process. I wasn't sure if the
> given method was for another linux distribution or not. 

'crontab -e' should be pretty much universal, and should work. What
was the error message? Maybe it couldn't launch a default editor?
Try: 

# EDITOR=vim crontab -e

or whatever editor you have available.

-- 
Hal