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cwboaze

Jan 14 2007, 09:34 AM

HI All,

my question is this:

Is there a command that will display all my crons
on my server through SSH root.

I know most commands but not this one, lol.

And is there a way to edit them through ssh
or where do I go to edit all crons on the server
I got one running when I removed a file after
a install and now it can't find that file, and I need
to modify that cron.

any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

uneedawebsite

Jan 14 2007, 11:39 AM

To edit a particular user's crontab from the root, use the following command:

crontab -u username -e

To view all the crontabs on your system, you can use this as a shell script:

CODE

#!/bin/sh

myemail=$1

if [ -n "$myemail" ]; then

mycrontmp=/root/cron.tmp.$$

# get current user list

for i in `cat /etc/passwd | cut -f1 -d :`; do

echo "--------------------------------------------------"

echo "Username: ${i}"

echo "--------------------------------------------------"

crontab -u ${i} -l 2>&1

echo "--------------------------------------------------"

done > $mycrontmp

cat $mycrontmp | mail -s "crontab report for `hostname`" ${myemail}

rm -f $mycrontmp

else

echo "Please supply a valid email address to get the report."

exit

fi

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