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Re: Cron Jobs

From: Jeremiah Wilton <jwilton_at_speakeasy.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:17:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411111513160.17568@shell2.speakeasy.net>


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.

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