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# 1  
Old 03-22-2010
Cron issue while renaming a username
Hi All;

I have a to rename a user account example User1 to User2 keeping everything same.

Now I would be using

usermod -l User1 User2 .However User1 has some cron jobs and by using the conventional usermod iam unable to transfer those cron jobs to User2 i.e after renaming the user.

Gone through MAN page
CAVEATS

"You must change the owner of any crontab files manually".
Is there any work around.

Thanks in Advance
Syed
# 2  
Old 03-22-2010
there are 2 work arounds possible..

1. find out the cron system file of user1 and make it as user 2.


2. else list out the cron entries of user1 and then redirect it to user2 as
Code:
crontab -l -u user1 | crontab -u user2 -

# 3  
Old 03-22-2010
Thanks thegeek i did it the second way.Smilie
# 4  
Old 03-22-2010
oops, also ensure that you have removed the user1 cron jobs.
# 5  
Old 03-24-2010
Done that....and thank you...once again,Well i had numerous users so i wrote something to move the files in /var/spool/cron/ to new user names and simultaneously did chown on them.It worked fine.Smilie

Regards,
Syed
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