Stop cron emails
Dreamhost sends you an email by default every time you run a cron job. To turn this off, run $ crontab -e and add this line to the top of your cron file: MAILTO=""
cron
Vi as default crontab editor
Dreamhost sets your default editor to pico. To change it to Vi, add the following line to the .bashrc file in your home directory : export VISUAL="vi"