On 2024-02-27 at 10:15, Gary Dale wrote: > Anyway, that got me down the rabbit hole to try to find where the > crontab file is. > > ls -l /root/cron* > ls: cannot access '/root/cron*': No such file or directory > > also > > # whereis crontab > crontab: /usr/bin/crontab /etc/crontab /usr/share/man/man1/crontab.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz > > so it's not in the location that you'd expect.
I'm not sure whereis is suitable for finding things like this. As its man page states, it's for finding "the binary, source, and manual page files for a command" - not the data files which the command may work with. > Nor can I find it in /etc/. The various cron files there don't > contain the lines I;m looking for. > Can anyone explain how Trixie is handling crontabs now? The first paragraph of crontab(1) states: >> Each user can have their own crontab, and though these are files in >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs,they are not intended to be edited >> directly. So, while I don't use per-user crontabs myself and so don't have experience with this personally, I would suggest looking in that directory - but not necessarily editing the files there, except via 'crontab -e' as you have already done. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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