Multiple crontab files

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 12:01:59 PDT 2004


In a 0.7K blaze of typing glory, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> >I don't think I understand what it is you're trying to do.  /etc/crontab 
> >is the crontab for the box.  What more are you seeking?
> 
> I was wanting a way to get a list of everything cron has scheduled to 
> run (systemwide and for all users). Sounds like the answer is that it is 
> a combo of everything in /var/spool/cron and /etc/crontab.
> 
> Before that I wanted to be certain that giving the root user its own 
> crontab wouldn't override the systemwide crontab (/etc/crontab).

It won't.

Kurt
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