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Mirage
Asked: 2009-12-09 14:27:05 +0800 CST

How to view the cron jobs on linux

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I want to view the all cron jobs in linux. Whats the command

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  1. Best Answer

    varies by distro, varies by cron software, varies by usage.

    this should cover everything on rhel/centos/fedora:

    /etc/crontab
/etc/cron.d/*
/etc/cron.daily/*
/etc/cron.hourly/*
/etc/cron.monthly/*
/etc/cron.weekly/*
/var/spool/cron/*
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  2. cat /var/spool/cron/*

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  3. Another way...

    As root, you can use the -u parameter to crontab mixed with -l to view that users crontab entries. Something like this: 

    cat /etc/passwd |cut -d ":" -f 1 | while read narf; do  crontab -u $narf -l; done

    That will get every username in your passwd file -- grabbing the first field (-f 1) using ':' as a delimiter (-d ":") with cut, and then calling crontab -u -l for each user in the passwd file.

    Often there is also a file /etc/crontab with the system-wide jobs.

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  4. In order to be complete, we mustn't forget anacron:

    /etc/anacrontab
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