replaced crontab, now should get crontab back to what it was

raminn · 10-17-2008, 01:22 AM

Hi all,

I was trying to learn how crontab works. I made a file with an echo command in it and used crontab -u root myfile.

The problem is that when i checked crontab -l i saw that all other jobs were gone and there only was myfile. I used crontab -r in hope that after removing it'll be back to its before jobs. But now when i use crontab -l it says 'no crontab for root'. I tried service crond restart, but no change. How can i get it back to the way it was? Though i had no idea what jobs it had. This is very urgent as i did on an important server.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Ramin.

billymayday · 10-17-2008, 05:50 PM

Do you have a backup?

Look for /var/spool/cron/root

raminn · 10-20-2008, 07:15 PM

Yes, it was there

and i used it to restore crontab.

Thank you so much for great help.

Ramin.