[Wylug-help] Removing a crontab

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 10:57, Martin Rowe wrote:
> On 11/02/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > A while back I asked about a logwatch warning telling me that there was a
> > crontab for 'nobody'.  Every indication led me to believe that there was
> > nothing actually wrong, but of course the warnings have continued.  Then
> > it occurred to me that if I simply removed the crontab the warnings would
> > go away.  This is where I fell down.  I tried 'crontab -u nobody -i' but
> > it demanded a filename.  What do I need to make this work?  Where will I
> > find this filename?
>
> Hi Anne
>
> On Debian/Ubuntu systems user crontabs are stored under
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ I've successfully moved crontabs from
> machine to machine by just copying those files.
>
> Regards, Martin

Hi, Martin.

The only files there with content are root, anne and amanda (backup 
application).  There is a 'nobody' but it is empty.  I'm getting nowhere 
fast :-)

Anne
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