cron job problem..

[sonix]

i login as root.How can i modify all user cron job ?

[Venkatesh BL]

crontab -e

Check out the manpage of 'crontab' for more info.

[Paul Sperry]

crontab -l username

list users crons

crontab -e username

edit users crons

[Harmanjit_1]

There are two ways to do so :-

1. crontab -e username

OR

2. Although its not good way to do but still you can go to /var/spool/cron/crontab and then edit each user file.

[Victor Semaska_3]

Harmanjit,

You should never edit the crontab file directly. That's because cron keeps all crontab entries in memory.

If you edit the crontab file directly, cron won't see those changes until next reboot.

Using 'crontab -e' will update the file and memory.

Vic

[Steven Schweda]

> If you edit the crontab file directly, cron
> won't see those changes until next reboot.

I haven't tried it lately on Tru64, but
somewhere, sometime, "kill -HUP "
would solve that problem without a reboot.

"crontab -e" is normally simpler, of course.

[sonix]

thanks all help me solve this problem.^_^

[Venkatesh BL]

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