Linux

I got a “grub>” prompt and NO operating systems

January 8, 2011

updated 2021-10-26 I had windows and an old copy of Fedora on my first of 2 hard disks and wanted to install the latest Fedora on the second one. The first time, I did not give it permission to touch my 1st hard disk containing windoze and fedora 13, which I did not want wrecked. Problem was, the new one, on...

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CRON JOBS; crontab, cron tables

November 24, 2010

Your crontab editor The default editor for the ‘crontab -e’ command and many others is vi. On Ubuntu, it is the nano editor. To change it to something else, like emacs, or gedit, for instence, use the commmand $ export VISUAL='gedit' (or whatever editor you like) $ export VISUAL='emacs' To see your crontab editor What is your crontab editor? to see what your crontab...

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