List of -all- scheduled cron jobs.

[Tom Gore]

How can I obtain a list of -all- scheduled cron jobs? I know I can get it user by user (crontab -l user), but is there some "wildcard" or something that will let me view all jobs?

Thanks,
Tom

Sorry if this is posted twice. I sent it yesterday, but cannot find any trace of it today.

[Alan Casey · Accepted solution]

cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

All the crontabs are held in this directory.

[harry d brown jr]

If this file is in play: /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow, then you know and control what users have access to cron.

live free or die
harry

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

all the cronjobs are resided in this directory.
/var/spool/cron/crontabs

There will be different files for each cron jobs by user id.

-USA..

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

There is no default command that will give you a list of all the users and their cronjobs. But you can write few commands as a script to get what you want. As a root user

#!/usr/bin/ksh

CRONTABS=/var/spool/cron/crontabs
for USER in `ls $CRONTABS`
do
echo "$USER: "
grep -v "^#" $USER
echo ""
done


Executing this script will give you crontab entries by user.

-Sri

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Your previous posting is still out there. You can check your last posts in your user profile on the left column.

Anyway, if you are looking at scheduled jobs, don't forget at jobs as well.

To list at jobs, run
# cat /var/spool/cron/atjobs/*

In fact, for ease of identification, you can wrap both in echo statements:

# for user in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/* /var/spool/cron/atjobs/* ; do echo $user cron/at job ; cat $user ; done

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
Brainbench MVP for Unix Admin
http://www.brainbench.com

[Helen French]

hey,

have a look at the /var/spool/cron directory. You can find all cron job files in 'crontabs' directory. Also you can find all 'at' jobs in 'atjobs' directory.

Shiju

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

A small correction in my message...

please replace grep -v "^#" $USER as

grep -v "^#" ${CRONTABS}/${USER}

-Sri