Topic: crontab question

[Stephen Schmucker]

Greetings,

I am trying to find out what information is in the cron tables.  I looked at the man page for crontab but when I tried it for root or did a -u admin with a -l it said there were none for either of those

Where do I look?

[stephen noble]

do you mean
[root@e-smith /etc]# ls -la cron*

to change them you have to change the template

[robert]

As far as I know, the only crontab that's created by default in e-smith is the system-wide /etc/crontab. This runs cron.hourly thru cron.monthly, also in /etc (mostly stuff for keeping your logs from getting too big). If your system is not configured for multi-drop e-mail retrieval, that's all it does. With multi-drop, the template for /etc/crontab will produce a few additional lines for running fetchmail. By the way, you can always add your own user-specific crontabs (for root or other users) with the command crontab -u -e  Comes in handy for running fetchmail for several users separately, for if you don't have a multi-drop mailbox at your mail service provider.