Moving cron to another system

[Chrisl_2]

HPUX 11.23 PA-RISC

Hi all.
I am in the process of moving an old production system on to another new system. My question is regarding all the cronjobs. To move them to the new system, can I just tar /var/spool/cron/crontabs on the old and untar it on the new system? I know that I will have to go thru each users crontab file and hunt down the scripts that are called. Am I missing anything else for this procedure?

TIA

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

That should do it. Make sure that each of those users is in cron.allow, too.


Pete

[spex]

Hi,

Make sure that appropriate users exist on the new system, and that you you restart the cron daemon ('/sbin/init.d/cron stop && /sbin/init.d/cron start') after you untar.

PCS

[DCE]

Yes that will work provided

all the same users (uids need to be the same as well)exist

users are in cron.allow

cron is stopped and restarted after the restore

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

While you can copy the contents of '/var/spool/cron/crontabs' from one server to another, you must stop and (re)start the 'cron' daemon afterwards to enable 'cron' to process the directory's contents. Do:

# /sbin/init.d/cron stop
# /sbin/init.d/cron start

Regards!

...JRF...

[Chrisl_2]

Thanks all!!!!