How to View cron Jobs for All Linux Users

Quick and Dirty Explanation

Red Hat Enterprise Edition 4.0

First, make sure you are performing these commands as root.

The text files containing the cron jobs are stored in the directory /var/spool/cron.

Each user's cron jobs are listed in files which have the same name as that user. For example, the cron jobs for the virtual_ftpuser account would be in the file /var/spool/cron/virtual_ftpuser.

Caveat

It should go without saying that none of these files should be modified unless one is using the crontab application!

Disclaimer

Yes, yes another non-network network trick, but its easier for me to remember them here than to go googling for the same information!


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