[CentOS] crontab for nobody

Chris Clonch chris at theclonchs.com
Sun Jul 20 17:04:10 UTC 2008


On Sunday 20 July 2008 11:50:21 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote:
> > > > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ?
> > >
> > > Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Anne,
> >
> > It should say "no crontab for nobody" or show the crontab
> >
> > Eh?
>
> It doesn't do either
>
> Anne

Sounds like there is an empty crontab for nobody.  Should be able to verify 
this by 'ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/nobody'.  What if you try to remove 
it by running 'crontab -l nobody -r'?

-Chris



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