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They are stored in tables called crontabs. You can find them in /var/spool/cron/crontabs. The tables contain the cron jobs for all users, except the root user. The root user can use the crontab for the whole system.
How do I view crontab in Linux?
2.To view the Crontab entries
- View Current Logged-In User’s Crontab entries : To view your crontab entries type crontab -l from your unix account.
- View Root Crontab entries : Login as root user (su – root) and do crontab -l.
- To view crontab entries of other Linux users : Login to root and use -u {username} -l.
How do I view the contents of crontab?
The crontab -l command displays the contents of a crontab file much the same way that the cat command displays the contents of other types of files. You do not have to change the directory to /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory (where crontab files are located) to use this command.