Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I ran two crontab commands
using:
crontab program1
crontab program2

However when I type crontab -l only the second cron job shows up, how do I see all cron jobs running and how do I edit all at the same time
Thanks in Advance
S

You don't run crontab commands. Crontab runs the commands.
You set the scheduling by issuing

Code:

crontab -e

which will load the crontab into editor of your choice (you can change the editor by 'select-editor' later on), and you specify what should run when. You can, of course have many different programs scheduled.

Root can set the crontab for ohter users as well, by doing

Code:

crontab -e -u user1

As you already know, you view the contents of crontab by

Code:

crontab -l

Man pages are your friend!

HI Mirni,
I guessed I used the wrong choice of words, "schedule" crontab is the right word, and that is what I did, but my question is still not answered,

Here is the question again:

Why does crontab -l command always show only the "latest scheduled" cron job, I wish to display all cronjobs that have been scheduled not just the latest one. How do you do this?

@walforum

Code:

crontab -l

Just display all crons per user which you are logged in with , It will display all crons in your crontab file not the last only.
if you run
[CODE]
$ EDITOR=vi
$ crontab -e
[0/CODE]
and shows many entries just post here again
If you want to display all cron jobs for all users you have to have root access and try something like this

Code:

for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do crontab -u $user -l; done

or

Code:

for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do echo $user; crontab -u $user -l; done

Thanks for your reply
How about if the logged in user has say about ten different crons scheduled and wants to see them all,
crontab -l only shows the tenth one out of the ten cron jobs, how do you view the first nine.

what flavor of UNIX you are using
issuing crontab -l command for a user will show all entries by default

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anyways try the following command
crontab -u $USER -l

Hi,
I Use a MAC OS x 10.6.8
I need administrative rights to use -u option which I don't have right now, but Thanks anyway.