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Operating Systems Solaris Problem with a cron job
# 8  
Old 01-09-2012
I usually use crontab -l to check my cronlist and crontab -e to add/modify.

any difference running this under root user or a specific user account?
# 9  
Old 01-10-2012
these commands are user specific..for every user the cron is different.
# 10  
Old 01-10-2012
Also you can check whether the crontab file for particular user is exists or not, if exists,

Code:
ls -ltr /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<<userfile>>

then edit as below,

Code:
export EDITOR=vi
crontab -e

# 11  
Old 01-11-2012
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I think no difference ...
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