How to save a cron job

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I have connected via ssh and have added a cron job but I can't figure out how to save it. I'm still on the crontab -e page how do I save my changes?

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crontab -e simply fires up the crontab file for that account in your default text editor so you can edit it.

With nano, which is the default on ubuntu, you can hit ctrl-x then choose to save.

From the comments :wq for Vim and C-x C-s to save and C-x C-c to exit for emacs.

Relevant portion of the MySQL reference manual:

Store your password in an option file. For example, on Unix, you can list your password in the [client] section of the .my.cnf file in your home directory:
[client]
password=your_pass
To keep the password safe, the file should not be accessible to anyone but yourself. To ensure this, set the file access mode to 400 or 600. For example:
shell> chmod 600 .my.cnf
To name from the command line a specific option file containing the password, use the --defaults-file=file_name option, where file_name is the full path name to the file. For example:
shell> mysql --defaults-file=/home/francis/mysql-opts
Section 4.2.3.3, “Using Option Files”, discusses option files in more detail.

Also see https://stackoverflow.com/q/10725209.

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