Re: cron directory temporaries

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <CAJ+Qsa+EznQycvVCiz-ygOHCr7DtTEnz5UkgfCETOR=1zN-naQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Does anyone know why /var/spool/cron  is full of temporary
> directories, shouldn't crontab
> remove them once it puts the new crontab in place?
>
> cron.0nnc7N/  cron.8B2aUC/  cron.DQpQ2a/  cron.OCZcH6/  cron.W4dMdx/
> cron.hz6xGv/  cron.vP6O9K/
> cron.1GO7he/  cron.8b5o2U/  cron.DUMBHe/  cron.QDdO5F/  cron.aWLMXw/
> cron.jdqviV/  cron.vddmmS/
> cron.2vSGGX/  cron.AoUk2o/  cron.GmWOCm/  cron.RFEIP3/  cron.cRYUFe/
> cron.ko2PY1/  cron.vtqoiY/
> cron.6BUOO1/  cron.C4QbYY/  cron.GuKoU1/  cron.RepgN9/  cron.deMeGB/
> cron.rhok8E/  cron.x71Bte/
> cron.6R2YlJ/  cron.CGotPU/  cron.JLo8dt/  cron.SShuzQ/  cron.fixTw7/
> cron.rnU9sm/  crontabs/
>
>
> The directories are actually empty, and the only user on the server is
> root, so surely it can't  be a permissions issue
>
> eg:
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jul 31 20:55 cron.AoUk2o/
>
> Any suggestions muchly appreciated.

The crontab for each user is located in /var/spool/cron/crontabs


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