A user cron job still runs after deletion and reboot

[Haitham Hamad]

A user cron was deleted from /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory but it still runs at the specified time??how can I stop that?

[Dario_1]

Can you see the cronjob when doing a crontab -l? If yes, do a crontab -e and delete the line or do that using sam. Is that machine part of a Service Guard Cluster?

Regards,

DR

[Ron Cornwell]

1. Check to make sure that it is not launch from another crontab entry (from root with an su).
2. Make sure you take the user out of /var/adm/cron/cron.allow.
3. Ensure the the job running is a cron job and not an 'at' job.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# crontab -r

Regards!

...JRF...

[Haitham Hamad]

the strange situtation is that
1- The use is not in cron.allow file and therefore when he runs crontab -l, he gets an unallowed message
2-the user still gets email whenever the cron runs!!
3- there is no su for that job in root's cron

[Haitham Hamad]

crontab -r for the user gets
crontab: you are not authorized to use cron. Sorry.

[Dario_1]

As mentioned by Ron, check the cron jobs executed by root to see an su to that user is getting executed from one of the root's crontjobs.

Regards,

DR

[Haitham Hamad]

I thought I would add the user back to cron.allow and then run the crontab -r command. When I added the user, I ran the crontab -l command and the cron job is there. I removed it with crontab -r. I don't think it will show up again. thanks everyone

[Frank Slootweg]

The problem is solved, but I just wanted to let you know *why* you got the problem:

cron(1M) keeps in-memory copies of the crontabs, so you should *not* delete/add/change files in/to the /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory, but use the crontab(1) command deleting/adding/changing crontab entries.