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# 1  
Old 05-07-2009
How to find Onwer of Crontab entry
Hi,

How to find the onwer who added the of crontab entry?

Thnaks
Marov
# 2  
Old 05-07-2009
root's crontab entry?
If yes, you should know who has root access to do so.

To investigate further, you must know when the cron file was modified by checking the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root date/timestamp. Then check the history of the users or any auditing tool that you use
# 3  
Old 05-10-2009
Bug
Thanks for your valuable information
# 4  
Old 05-11-2009
you cannot tell who added that crontab entry unless they put a comment on itSmilie
# 5  
Old 05-11-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by gowthamakanthan
you cannot tell who added that crontab entry unless they put a comment on itSmilie
Definitely you can know who editted the file last, at least.
# 6  
Old 05-12-2009
Question
Hi incredible,


Can you tell me the procedure to find out who modified file and which entry he modified

Thanks
MaroV
# 7  
Old 05-12-2009
I already mentioned before that you can check who modified the file last. Not which entry. its the same like any other OS files
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