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kumartnj

06-12-2009 01:46 AM

copy or backup crontab

All,

How to copy or backup the crontab file.please someone help me on this.

Thanks in Advance !

-Kumar

colucix

06-12-2009 02:10 AM

Code:

crontab -l > $(date +%Y%m%d).crontab

l33y	07-18-2014 07:46 PM

colucix, when I execute that command with a sudo prefix, I get the message:

Quote:

no crontab for root

lleb	07-19-2014 07:02 PM

then there is no cron set for root. not a big deal

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