how-to for crontab

[permitivity]

I see the crontab commands. I wanted to add a cronjob to restart the Pogoplug at 5AM every day. But I'm not sure which buttons to push to save the command.

First, this is the command that I think will make it restart at 5AM daily. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '00 05 * * * /usr/bin/reboot')

But when I type in "crontab -e" to edit, I was expecting something like a nano window to edit text commands. Instead, I get a window that looks like this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
~
~
~
~
~
~
"/tmp/crontab.b75pJC" 0 lines, 0 characters

')

I can't type anything in. Do I need to do a special ctrl command to start typing in crontab? I obviously have no idea what I'm doing here. There's lots of info about how to write the command, but they seem to assume you know what you're doing in Linux

[moonman]

the crontab line seems right.
By default vi is the editor. It is a little more complicated to use it. To use nano

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'export EDITOR=nano
crontab -e')

Add the export line to /etc/profile to make it default