Places where cron jobs can hide
- In
/etc/crontab - In
/etc/cron.d/* - In
/etc/cron.hourly/* - In
/etc/cron.daily/* - In
/etc/cron.weekly/* - In
/etc/cron.monthly/* - In the personal crontab of any user. This is a magic file you can view with
crontab -land edit withcrontab -e. You'll need tosuto the respective user to view or edit her crontab.
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