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06-04-2005, 09:03 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Ball of Confusion
Distribution: Artix,Arch,Slackware,Bluewhite64
Posts: 261
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nothing in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs
Somehow while editing my crontabs directory, both of them are now gone. There used to be two files, a file with my username on it and a file named root. I'm pretty sure I need these files there. So if anyone has the contents of the default crontab contents I would appreciate them posting it.
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06-04-2005, 09:47 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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there is no default entry. just create whatever you want. using the crontab command. Also the files would not be in /usr/... but /var/...
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06-04-2005, 09:51 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Ball of Confusion
Distribution: Artix,Arch,Slackware,Bluewhite64
Posts: 261
Original Poster
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hm ... cause I did cat root and there was commands saying to run cron jobs in cron.daily etc
I just checked in /var... but there's nothing in that folder either
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06-04-2005, 12:49 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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you have no user crontabs then... not a problem at all.
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06-04-2005, 10:08 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 927
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the default root crontab looks like this:
Quote:
# If you don't want the output of a cron job mailed to you, you have to direct
# any output to /dev/null. We'll do this here since these jobs should run
# properly on a newly installed system, but if they don't the average newbie
# might get quite perplexed about getting strange mail every 5 minutes. :^)
#
# Run the hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly cron jobs.
# Jobs that need different timing may be entered into the crontab as before,
# but most really don't need greater granularity than this. If the exact
# times of the hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly cron jobs do not suit your
# needs, feel free to adjust them.
#
# Run hourly cron jobs at 47 minutes after the hour:
47 * * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 1> /dev/null
#
# Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day:
40 4 * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null
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# Run weekly cron jobs at 4:30 on the first day of the week:
30 4 * * 0 /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 1> /dev/null
#
# Run monthly cron jobs at 4:20 on the first day of the month:
20 4 1 * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 1> /dev/null
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06-04-2005, 10:16 PM
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#6
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Argentina (SR, LP)
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 3,145
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Crontab files are in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ and can be accesed by root only (unless you issue crontab -e as the user editing a crontab).
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