Posted by yolau

This is something that I recently come across and I thought that a tiny tutorial is needed here.
CentOS 5.x comes with vi as the default editor so when you run:

crontab -e

“Vi” is the editor that opens up.
I personally don’t like it and I wanted to change it to the good old nano.
If you are in the same situation here is the simple command that will change your default OS editor.

export VISUAL=’pico -w’

Now when you run:

crontab -e

Nano will open up.

Hope it helps !

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