Crontab issue, 2 questions

[jang]

Hi,

I have a ISPconfig on a Ubuntu server based on the How to Perfect Setup tutorials.

When I do crontab -e it opens up in Midnight Commander (great for filebrowsing), but I want it to open in the VI-editor:
How do I change the setting?

Since it is not supported from the ISPConfig admin screens:
What is the best place to put my own daily crontab jobs for my websites?
(www.site.com/update.php etc) (in the ISP crontab or the etc/cron.daily?)
and how should I configure it.

Thanks,

Jang

[falko]

Originally Posted by jang

When I do crontab -e it opens up in Midnight Commander (great for filebrowsing), but I want it to open in the VI-editor:
How do I change the setting?

Do this:

rm -f /etc/alternatives/editor
ln -s /usr/bin/vi /etc/alternatives/editor

Originally Posted by jang

Since it is not supported from the ISPConfig admin screens:
What is the best place to put my own daily crontab jobs for my websites?
(www.site.com/update.php etc) (in the ISP crontab or the etc/cron.daily?)
and how should I configure it.

You can either put a shell script in /etc/cron.daily, it will be called everyday between 6.00h and 7.00h in the morning, or you run

crontab -e

and put your cron job there (which gives you more flexibility as to when you want to run it).

[jang]

It took me a while but i already did it like this:

update-alternatives --config editor

and edited the crontab -e like you suggested.

Thx,

Jang