On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Peter Fleck wrote: > I have a mystery. Using Redhat Linux 7.2. > > Cron's main config file, /etc/crontab, is owned by root and the cron > log says 'root' is running this crontab. But when I sudo to root, > and issue the 'crontab -l' command, I don't see it (in fact I see a > different crontab that we installed and is stored in /var/spool/cron). > > Everything is working fine but I'm wondering how you edit > /etc/crontab as someone added some cron jobs and we need to remove > them. Do I simply edit the file in vi and restart crond? /etc/crontab is the system wide cron file. crontab maintains crontab files for individual users, and is not relevant to /etc/crontab -- Matthew Galgoci System Administrator Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
