viewing all crontab files on a system

kaplan71 · 11-16-2009, 10:48 AM

Hi there --

Is there a way to view all the crontab files, owned by root, users, and other system accounts, that exist on a system simultaneously rather than having to go the individual accounts? The distribution in question here is the Debian 4.0 release.

Thanks.

Guttorm · 11-16-2009, 11:04 AM

Hi

You can read the files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs. Each user has a file there. But you should not change the files there, but reading is ok.

david1941 · 11-16-2009, 11:45 AM

Here's a quick bash command (must run as su):

Code:

 for LISTED in $(awk -F":" '{ printf "%s ",$1 }' /etc/passwd); do /usr/bin/crontab -u $LISTED -l; done 
for LISTED in $(awk -F":" '{ printf "%s ",$1 }' /etc/passwd); do echo "$LISTED:";/usr/bin/crontab -u $LISTED -l; done