#114: Set Ubuntu crontab default editor

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on April 15, 2011, 11:04 AM UTC   —   from   92049143cabb7ba896d7c06e19906303_small yliu    ( 4,413 views )
At some point my Ubuntu installation's crontab decided to use nano as its default editor, despite my having switched it to emacs. Upon using crontab -e, I get dropped into nano. On completion of the edit, the shell reports: "/usr/bin/sensible-editor: 25...
Tags: Ubuntu, cron, editor, emacs
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#51: Broken shell command substitution in crontab

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on June 04, 2009, 11:05 AM UTC   —   from   92049143cabb7ba896d7c06e19906303_small yliu    ( 2,034 views )
In a cronjob, I want to execute a date sub-command and substitute the results in place into the overall shell command. Something like: 1 5 * * * bash -c 'cp /foo/bar /foo/bar.$(date +%Y%m%d).sql' Unfortunately, this breaks with an error at runtime: /bin...
Tags: shell scripting, crontab, Linux, cronjob, cron, bash, shell, UNIX
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#28: crontab settings for deploying Ultrasphinx

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on March 28, 2009, 07:36 AM UTC   —   from   92049143cabb7ba896d7c06e19906303_small yliu    ( 1,062 views )
the SelfSolved instance deployed uses Ultrasphinx for its full-text indexer and search provider. The sphinx indexer needs to be run regularly to index new text that appears on the site. I need crontab incantations to set the indexer to create delta indexes...
Tags: Ruby on Rails, Rails, ultrasphinx, sphinx, full-text search, cron, crontab
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