
How to View Jobs in Crontab
To view Root’s Cron Jobs
crontab -l
View a User’s Cron Jobs
crontab -u username -l
Example with user testuser:
crontab -u testuser -l

View Daily Cron Jobs
View all the daily cron jobs:ls -la /etc/cron.daily/
View a specific daily cron job:
less /etc/cron.daily/filename
Example with file name logrotate:
less /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
View Hourly Cron Jobs
First view all the hourly cron jobs:ls -la /etc/cron.hourly/
Then view a specific hourly cron job:
less /etc/cron.hourly/filename
Example with file name 0anacron:
less /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron
View Weekly Cron Jobs
First view all the weekly cron jobs:ls -la /etc/cron.weekly/
Then view a specific weekly cron job:
less /etc/cron.weekly/filename
Example with file name weeklyexample:
less /etc/cron.weekly/weeklyexample
View Monthly Cron Jobs
First view all the monthly cron jobs:ls -la /etc/cron.monthly/
Then view a specific monthly cron job:
less /etc/cron.monthly/filename
Example with file name readahead-monthly.cron:
less /etc/cron.monthly/readahead-monthly.cron
View /etc/crontab
less /etc/crontab
Example Result:
SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root # For details see man 4 crontabs # Example of job definition: # .---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | .------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ... # | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat # | | | | | # * * * * * user-name command to be executedWhen a standard Cloud VPS is not enough, Liquid Web’s HIPAA compliant web hosting using our Dedicated Servers are a dream come true. Liquid Web’s server outmatches the competition on performance and support. Check out how our Dedicated Servers can skyrocket your site’s performance. Video Update by Justin Palmer