On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Sam Reddy wrote: > I have a requirement to monitor the cron jobs of other Unix users on > the server. All the I have to do is find if cron jobs are commented > out or not for application Unix accouts. Would you please let me > know if there is a way to achive this ? I don't have root access on > this box, so this can't be done as root. Do you know where all the > cron files are stored ? The crontabs are usually in /var/spool/cron/ for most Unixes. The standard mode is 600, so you would have to be root to see other people's crontabs. I think DBAs should have root access. -- Jeremiah Wilton Independent Oracle Professional Oracle Certified Master Disaster Recovery - Seminars - Technical Interviews http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l