Multiple crontab files

[Net Llama!]

On 05/05/04 14:52, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> Its in addition to on linux, AFAIK.  /etc/crontab is usually for
>> systemwide cronjobs that aren't tied to any particular user.  If you're
>> looking to create a crontab for root then do "crontab -e" as root, and
>> you'll get one.  I don't think that running "crontab /root/crontab" will
>> do anything.
> 
> 
> When I did 'crontab /root/crontab' it created the file 
> /var/spool/cron/root which contains the stuff from /root/crontab. But is 
> there any to be certain the stuff from /etc/crontab is still waiting to 
> execute?

i think there's a /var/log/cron that logs all of that stuff.  but even 
so, no individual user's crontab should prevent /etc/crontab from running.

> 
> Thought I remembered there was some way to get cron to dump its innards, 
> but can't find it now.

crontab -l

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