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Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

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On 2024-02-27 10:26, The Wanderer wrote:
> 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.
locate crontab also fails to find it, as does  find / -name crontab
>
>> 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.

Thanks. I missed that when I was reading the comments.  I need to 
enlarge the text more, I guess.

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where are the crontab files in Trixie? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2024-02-27 16:20 +0100
  Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-02-27 16:30 +0100
    Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2024-02-27 20:20 +0100
      Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-28 04:20 +0100
      Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-02-28 04:20 +0100
  Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2024-02-27 16:30 +0100
    Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2024-02-27 20:20 +0100
      Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-02-27 20:20 +0100
        Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2024-02-27 20:40 +0100
          Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Gremlin <scott-andrews@columbus.rr.com> - 2024-02-27 22:10 +0100
        Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-02-27 21:00 +0100
          Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-27 21:00 +0100
            Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Gremlin <scott-andrews@columbus.rr.com> - 2024-02-27 22:20 +0100
            Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-02-28 16:10 +0100
  Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-27 16:40 +0100
    Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2024-02-27 20:20 +0100
  Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-02-27 16:40 +0100
    Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-02-28 04:40 +0100
      Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-28 16:40 +0100
        Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-28 17:00 +0100
        Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-02-29 05:40 +0100
          Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-29 16:20 +0100

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