Crontab file

mradsus · #1 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008

Hi All,
I created a crontab entry in a cron.txt file accidentally entered
crontab cron.txt.

Now my previous crontab -l entries are not showing up, that means i removed the scheduling of the previous jobs by running this command "crontab cron.txt"

How do I revert back to previously schedule jobs.
Please help. this is urgent.,
Thanks.

zaxxon · #2 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008

Restore the crontab for this user from your backup.

mradsus · #3 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008

I dont know where is the crontab file locatedfor the scheduled jobs.
If I can do it from the backups, can you give me the commands.

ynilesh · #4 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008

There are no special commands for that. Just read old backup crontab and put it in,

Code:

crontab -e

and save it.

mradsus · #5 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008

I dont know where the old backup of crontab is located.
How to find it.

jhtrice · #6 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008

Ask your sys admin to restore it for you.

lestat_ecuador · #7 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008

Try to go to /tmp and do

Code:

ls -ltr cron*

Then will appear kind a history of the cron, see the creation dates an look into the one you want. For example I have:

Code:

usuario: > cd /tmp/
usuario: /tmp > ls -ltr cro*
-rw-------   1 ecopge   ecuador      859 Jul 25 08:33 crontabJhaiKP
-rw-------   1 ecppga   ecuador        0 Jul 28 16:00 croutFNZCuVqsb

I already modify my crontab file, it is into croutFNZCuVqsb but my last crontab file is into [B]crontabJhaiKP[B].

try it and let me know how are you going.

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