crontab locations

Red Squirrel · 09-23-2004, 06:27 PM

Anyone know another place then /etc/crontab that cron checks?

I have these cron jobs that keep runinng and they cause all sorts of problems (it makes the mail server go nuts by bouncing mail all over recursively). I need to clear the mail queue every day because it ends up having a few hundred messages and it simply multiplies because of some cron job that's sending an email to a bad address. I need to get rid of that cronjob but don't know where it is. Thanks!

AAnarchYY · 09-23-2004, 06:29 PM

run crontab -e

Electro · 09-23-2004, 06:38 PM

The root's crontab is located in /etc/crontab. Users crontab is located in /var/spool/cron. Just put "" on the line that states MAIL. Then it would not send any e-mails.

Red Squirrel · 09-23-2004, 06:47 PM

Thanks crontab -e worked... there was only one entry and it was the one that was causing the problems. My /etc/crontab works fine... but why was it not displayed in crontab -e? As long as it works, great, but I just found it weird that there was an entry in a seperate file like that.

AAnarchYY · 09-23-2004, 06:51 PM

well crontab -e only displays the cron jobs for the user that you execute it with