Timeline for Where is my crontab file?
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| May 3, 2022 at 13:54 | comment | added | geotheory |
All these files are headlined with # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall
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| Jan 4, 2022 at 17:43 | history | edited | spkane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Providing some more details to help eliminate confusion primarily around directory links.
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| Dec 30, 2021 at 20:42 | comment | added | GDP2 |
Apparently on newer versions, crontabs are stored under: /usr/lib/cron/tabs. Although, you need root permission to view the contents of that folder.
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| Oct 9, 2019 at 18:15 | comment | added | Dickster | AlexMA is correct, and on 10.12 (and above) you may need to become 'root' to have permission to access these tables, which have usernames. I use 'sudo bash' to become 'root', and 'exit' when I'm done. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 15:04 | comment | added | AlexMA |
On my mac (v10.11, el capitan) I found it in /private/var/at/tabs/. I used find / -iname *cron*.
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| S Jun 24, 2016 at 23:30 | history | edited | user3439894 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 6 characters in body
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| S Jun 24, 2016 at 23:30 | history | suggested | joxl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added backtics, cleaned up explanation
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| Nov 22, 2014 at 16:22 | comment | added | Jack Humphries | In Snow Leopard, the user crontabs are stored in /var/cron/tabs, as well. | |
| S May 19, 2012 at 5:27 | history | suggested | irrational John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
just added some markdown
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| May 19, 2012 at 5:09 | history | answered | spkane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |