How do I list all cron jobs for all users?
You would have to run this as root, but:
for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do crontab -u $user -l; done
will loop over each user name listing out their crontab. The crontabs are owned by the respective users so you won't be able to see another user's crontab w/o being them or root.
Editif you want to know which user a crontab belongs to, use echo $user
for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do echo $user; crontab -u $user -l; done
I ended up writing a script (I'm trying to teach myself the finer points of bash scripting, so that's why you don't see something like Perl here). It's not exactly a simple affair, but it does most of what I need. It uses Kyle's suggestion for looking up individual users' crontabs, but also deals with /etc/crontab
(including the scripts launched by run-parts
in /etc/cron.hourly
, /etc/cron.daily
, etc.) and the jobs in the /etc/cron.d
directory. It takes all of those and merges them into a display something like the following:
mi h d m w user command09,39 * * * * root [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm47 */8 * * * root rsync -axE --delete --ignore-errors / /mirror/ >/dev/null17 1 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/apt17 1 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/aptitude17 1 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/find17 1 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/logrotate17 1 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/man-db17 1 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/ntp17 1 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/standard17 1 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd27 2 * * 7 root /etc/cron.weekly/man-db27 2 * * 7 root /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd13 3 * * * archiver /usr/local/bin/offsite-backup 2>&132 3 1 * * root /etc/cron.monthly/standard36 4 * * * yukon /home/yukon/bin/do-daily-stuff5 5 * * * archiver /usr/local/bin/update-logs >/dev/null
Note that it shows the user, and more-or-less sorts by hour and minute so that I can see the daily schedule.
So far, I've tested it on Ubuntu, Debian, and Red Hat AS.
#!/bin/bash# System-wide crontab file and cron job directory. Change these for your system.CRONTAB='/etc/crontab'CRONDIR='/etc/cron.d'# Single tab character. Annoyingly necessary.tab=$(echo -en "\t")# Given a stream of crontab lines, exclude non-cron job lines, replace# whitespace characters with a single space, and remove any spaces from the# beginning of each line.function clean_cron_lines() { while read line ; do echo "${line}" | egrep --invert-match '^($|\s*#|\s*[[:alnum:]_]+=)' | sed --regexp-extended "s/\s+/ /g" | sed --regexp-extended "s/^ //" done;}# Given a stream of cleaned crontab lines, echo any that don't include the# run-parts command, and for those that do, show each job file in the run-parts# directory as if it were scheduled explicitly.function lookup_run_parts() { while read line ; do match=$(echo "${line}" | egrep -o 'run-parts (-{1,2}\S+ )*\S+') if [[ -z "${match}" ]] ; then echo "${line}" else cron_fields=$(echo "${line}" | cut -f1-6 -d' ') cron_job_dir=$(echo "${match}" | awk '{print $NF}') if [[ -d "${cron_job_dir}" ]] ; then for cron_job_file in "${cron_job_dir}"/* ; do # */ <not a comment> [[ -f "${cron_job_file}" ]] && echo "${cron_fields} ${cron_job_file}" done fi fi done;}# Temporary file for crontab lines.temp=$(mktemp) || exit 1# Add all of the jobs from the system-wide crontab file.cat "${CRONTAB}" | clean_cron_lines | lookup_run_parts >"${temp}" # Add all of the jobs from the system-wide cron directory.cat "${CRONDIR}"/* | clean_cron_lines >>"${temp}" # */ <not a comment># Add each user's crontab (if it exists). Insert the user's name between the# five time fields and the command.while read user ; do crontab -l -u "${user}" 2>/dev/null | clean_cron_lines | sed --regexp-extended "s/^((\S+ +){5})(.+)$/\1${user} \3/" >>"${temp}"done < <(cut --fields=1 --delimiter=: /etc/passwd)# Output the collected crontab lines. Replace the single spaces between the# fields with tab characters, sort the lines by hour and minute, insert the# header line, and format the results as a table.cat "${temp}" | sed --regexp-extended "s/^(\S+) +(\S+) +(\S+) +(\S+) +(\S+) +(\S+) +(.*)$/\1\t\2\t\3\t\4\t\5\t\6\t\7/" | sort --numeric-sort --field-separator="${tab}" --key=2,1 | sed "1i\mi\th\td\tm\tw\tuser\tcommand" | column -s"${tab}" -trm --force "${temp}"