Nano as your crontab editor

[kde-head]

Note: if you dont have nano, but you have URPMI set up , issueing

 

urpmi nano

 

should install it.

 

Now edit your system wide bashrc file (i'm assuming that you use bash as your default shell)

 

nano /etc/bashrc

 

 

Add the following lines:

 

EDITOR=nano

export EDITOR

 

 

now type (as root)

 

crontab -e

 

Nano should open up, with your root crontab file.