locating mystery crontab file?

[sjarvis]

I have two Macs running OS X 10.2.6. Mac A is a webserver. Mac B is just another machine in the office. Once upon a time, I set up some cron jobs on B that hit webpages on A with cURL.

I need to edit those cron jobs on B, but I can't find the crontab! I only use one user on B, and when I use crontab -e or crontab -l, those cron jobs that I KNOW are running (I can see their results) aren't listed. I've checked the crontabs of other users and root, too, but the tasks aren't in any of those places.

I also checked the system crontab at /private/etc/crontab, and it just has the stock contents.

How do I find the file that contains these cron jobs?

thanks,

Steven

 

[Darkshadow]

Did you maybe make an /etc/daily.local (or weekly.local or monthly.local) file?

 

[Captain Code]

Did you try /etc/crontab?

 

[Darkshadow]

Errr...Captain, did you see the line:

I also checked the system crontab at /private/etc/crontab, and it just has the stock contents.

?

 

[Captain Code]

Yeah, but /etc/crontab is different than /private/etc/crontab isn't it?

 

[Timoken]

try "sudo find / -name "*crontab*" -print" or login as root and do find command. it will list all files with crontab in their name.
it is much better than the finder or sherlock-search because it also searches in your system-files and hidden directories

 

[Darkshadow]

No, because /etc is a symbolic link to /private/etc ... so they're the same file.

 

[Captain Code]

Oh, I see