Crontab Mystery

From: Peter Fleck (fleck004_at_umn.edu)
Date: 12/17/03

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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:08:10 -0600

    I have a mystery. Using Redhat Linux 7.2.

    Cron's main config file, /etc/crontab, is owned by root and the cron
    log says 'root' is running this crontab. But when I sudo to root,
    and issue the 'crontab -l' command, I don't see it (in fact I see a
    different crontab that we installed and is stored in /var/spool/cron).

    Everything is working fine but I'm wondering how you edit
    /etc/crontab as someone added some cron jobs and we need to remove
    them. Do I simply edit the file in vi and restart crond?

    Thanks. 

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