Crontab Question
 

Hello All,

I have a crontab related question which I am hoping someone can answer. I recently took over a Redhat Enterprise 5 Server, and I was told by the previous Server Admin that there is a cron job that does the backups. I ran the following command to get a list of all users:

I then ran the following command for each of those users to see if they have any crontabs associated with them:

It doesn't show any crontab entries for any users (including root). But I am positive that there is a scheduled job somewhere because the backups are still running every night.

What am I missing here? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Pete

Take a look in the
directories

Thank you very much for the quick response repo. I see the backup script in question in "/etc/cron.daily/sqlbackup". But it doesn't show under crontab. Does that mean the script file was manually created there?

Also, how do I find out what user the script executes under (is it the Owner user of the file)? Do any script files created in cron* folders automatically execute without entering crontab entry for them?

Thanks,
Pete

Take a look at
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/56
Best is to look at the script, to see what it does.
Files in cron.* are mostly executed as root, unless another user is setup in the script.

Hi,

Check this file /etc/crontab

I believe you're using vixie-cron which executes those directories as part of it's responsibilities without needing a system crontab.

Regards,

Alunduil

Thank you very much. This line answers my question: