crontab -l
crontab -u username -l
Example with user <reference_page_text>testuser:
crontab -u testuser -l
First view all the daily cron jobs:
ls -la /etc/cron.daily/
Then view a specific daily cron job:
less /etc/cron.daily/filename
Example with filename <reference_page_text>logrotate:
less /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
First view all the hourly cron jobs:
ls -la /etc/cron.hourly/
Then view a specific hourly cron job:
less /etc/cron.hourly/filename
Example with filename <reference_page_text>0anacron:
less /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron
First view all the weekly cron jobs:
ls -la /etc/cron.weekly/
Then view a specific weekly cron job:
less /etc/cron.weekly/filename
Example with filename <reference_page_text>weeklyexample:
less /etc/cron.weekly/weeklyexample
First view all the monthly cron jobs:
ls -la /etc/cron.monthly/
Then view a specific monthly cron job:
less /etc/cron.monthly/filename
Example with filename <reference_page_text>readahead-monthly.cron:
less /etc/cron.monthly/readahead-monthly.cron
less /etc/crontab
Example Result:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# For details see man 4 crontabs
# Example of job definition:
# .—————- minute (0 – 59)
# | .————- hour (0 – 23)
# | | .———- day of month (1 – 31)
# | | | .——- month (1 – 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr …
# | | | | .—- day of week (0 – 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * user-name command to be executed
