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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Sam Reddy wrote:
> I have a requirement to monitor the cron jobs of other Unix users on
> the server. All the I have to do is find if cron jobs are commented
> out or not for application Unix accouts. Would you please let me
> know if there is a way to achive this ? I don't have root access on
> this box, so this can't be done as root. Do you know where all the
> cron files are stored ?
The crontabs are usually in /var/spool/cron/ for most Unixes. The standard mode is 600, so you would have to be root to see other people's crontabs.
I think DBAs should have root access.
-- Jeremiah Wilton Independent Oracle Professional Oracle Certified Master Disaster Recovery - Seminars - Technical Interviews http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu Nov 11 2004 - 22:11:45 CST