Re: restoring crontab file

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Author: Eric \"Shubes\"
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: restoring crontab file
wrote:
> I backed up a server before I retired it and I wanted to view roots
> crontab file but I am not sure where that is located, is it in /etc?
>
>
> Jim
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It is on Redhat/Fedora. Not sure about other distros.
Note, on RH/FC, it simply points to other folders (e.g. /etc/cron.daily)
where the actual scripts that cron runs are located.

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-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
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  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237


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