From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Nov 11 20:13:19 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iAC2DJl18873 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:13:19 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iAC2DIa18868 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:13:18 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 20BFA7337FE; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:48:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30861-65; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:48:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8DDFE7337CE; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:27:43 -0500 (EST) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Subject: OT RE: Cron Jobs Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:47:52 -0600 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Cron Jobs Thread-Index: AcTINhtIV2Ur3tK6Qwyr1KJyO6GIxAAAZrQw From: "Jesse, Rich" To: "List" X-archive-position: 12144 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: Rich.Jesse@quadtechworld.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: Rich.Jesse@quadtechworld.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org You're supposed to monitor cron jobs? This is probably not the list you = want to ask. Unless you can get root or want to hack into the box, you probably = aren't going to have much luck. And without knowing which unix flavor = you're looking at, you could try /var/spool/cron/crontabs/, but you'd = need root to look at it. Rich -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:48 PM To: LazyDBA; List Subject: Cron Jobs Hi All, 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.=20 Do you know where all the cron files are stored ?=20 Have a great day,=20 Regards, Sam -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l