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Re: unwanted crontab message

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: unwanted crontab message
Date 2024-09-14 03:00 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 22:46:09 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> I just ran crontab -e as a fresh user and it actually invoked
> /usr/bin/sensible-editor and asked me which editor I wanted to use
> (now and in future). So perhaps the man page for crontab is out of
> date.

Agreed.

hobbit:~$ strings /usr/bin/crontab | grep usr/bin/
/usr/bin/sensible-editor

The man page is simply wrong, I think.

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unwanted crontab message Marcus Park <marp@privatembox.com> - 2024-09-13 23:50 +0200
  Re: unwanted crontab message Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-09-14 00:00 +0200
    Re: unwanted crontab message Marcus Park <marp@privatembox.com> - 2024-09-14 00:20 +0200
      Re: unwanted crontab message Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-09-14 00:50 +0200
        Re: unwanted crontab message Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-09-14 01:00 +0200
      Re: unwanted crontab message Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-09-14 00:50 +0200
        Re: unwanted crontab message Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-09-14 03:00 +0200
  Re: unwanted crontab message Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-09-14 00:00 +0200
    Re: unwanted crontab message Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-09-14 10:50 +0200

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