View all CRON jobs

Zombrex

Hi guys,

Is there a way as root to view all cron jobs that are set up to run for all users on Fedora?

I know you can crontab -l -u "username" for each individual user as root, but I'm trying to track down a rouge process and I've no idea what user it is being started under

Thanks

phil

All cronjobs should be logged to /var/log/cron with the user it is run as (so you have a historical reference)

I think FC5 uses vixie-cron, so you should have a list of current active cronjobs in /var/spool/cron

e.g.

$ sudo ls /var/spool/cron/
phil  root
$

That's a cronjob file for my user 'phil' and the 'root' user on my system. They're plain text files, so use less/more/cat or your favourite editor to view them. Obviously, try not to modify the files and use crontab(1) to do that.

Explain to us a bit more about the rogue process and we might be able to help you track it down.

Phil.

Blowfish

Wicknight wrote:

Hi guys,

Is there a way as root to view all cron jobs that are set up to run for all users on Fedora?

I know you can crontab -l -u "username" for each individual user as root, but I'm trying to track down a rouge process and I've no idea what user it is being started under

Thanks

it would probably be easier to do this using

ps aux | grep "process name"

ravydavygravy

as root, run the following:

cat /var/spool/cron/* /etc/cron.d/* /etc/crontab

to list all currently set cronjobs.

Alternativly, if you need to see what each user has setup, try this:

for USER in `cat /etc/passwd | grep sh | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
do
echo "Crontab for $USER:"
crontab -u $USER -l
echo
done

Hope this helps....