Displaying cron jobs for all users.

#1 · 20-09-2007 9:15am #1

Hi,
There was a post on this forum which seems to have disappeared

. It showed how to get a crontab listing for all users by parsing the passwd file and then display the crons for each user found.

Can anybody remember how this was done?

anonymousjunkie · 20-09-2007 9:31am

This is probably it, if you're talking linux anyway

cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | grep -vE "#" | xargs -i{} crontab -u {} -l

h57xiucj2z946q · 20-09-2007 9:32am

you could look in /var/spool/cron/crontabs

h57xiucj2z946q · 20-09-2007 10:11am

I was gonna suggest:

crontab -l | tee `awk -F":" '{ print $1}' /etc/passwd

I tested this on Solaris 10 and it works. It wont work on SuSE 9.2 as it seems tee is only passing back the first user, which is root.

degsie · 20-09-2007 11:49am

Thanks guys, I have something to go on from here. I need this for Solaris 8 & 9 and for Tru64 systems. Thanks again.

h57xiucj2z946q · 20-09-2007 1:59pm

the command i posted should work for you so, the only problem is there is no way of identifying which crontab belongs to which user then they are all together

leeroybrown · 20-09-2007 8:49pm

One point to note is that /etc/passwd isn't necessarily an authoritative list of all user accounts on a system. It is only one potential source albeit the most common. It's a far better idea to use 'getent passwd' in any scripts that do this as it will include all potential NSS passwd sources (LDAP, NIS, PAM-MySQL, ...) and as such avoid problems should extra sources be added.

h57xiucj2z946q · 21-09-2007 10:42am

thats a nice command, thanks

Displaying cron jobs for all users.

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