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[PLUG] Re: Mystery Cron job
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Aaron Crosman wrote:
> I noticed today that I have a cron job that's running about once a week,
> and it's causing problems. The trouble is I don't know which user
> account the job belongs to, I killed it off before I thought about using
> ps to find the user context, and I'd rather not wait until it starts up
> again (in part since I don't know when that will be). I checked both
> root and my user's crontab, and I don't see it on there. Is there a way
> to look over all the cron tabs in one shot?
Cron jobs are located in /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.weekly,
/etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly, /var/spool/cron. Most likely you are
seeing one of the weekly cron jobs kick off. What kind of problems are
you seeing?
Regards,
Tom
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