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Old 05-20-2009
not able to locate the cron entry
Hi,

I am new to unix.

I have once made an entry into cron file for one scirpt to run. The script sends me email. But i want the script entry removed from the cron file.

But i am not able to find the entry in cron file. When i do crontab -e it shows content of the file but my script is no where in that file (but i know the script is running as i get the email everyday).

I had a question - are there multiple cron files, may be i have made entry into different cron file but not in what i am looking in?

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 05-20-2009
As of my knowledge ther will be only one crontab file.

Better do

Code:
 
crontab -l | grep "file_to_search"

# 3  
Old 05-20-2009
There can be multiple crontabs. Where to look for them depends on which Operating System you are running. See "man crontab".
# 4  
Old 05-20-2009
AIX and Solaris crontab files are stored in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/. Not sure bout other UNIX/Linux variants.
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