Restoring crontab file

How can restore the root crontab? Anonymous Posted May 9, 0 Comments. If you have a mksysb you can resore it from that.

Pratibha Posted May 9, 0 Comments. Never mind! Pratibha Posted May 10, 0 Comments. Thanks a lot! Hi All, Thank you all for the responses.

Anonymous Posted May 10, 0 Comments. Robert Weinmann Posted May 10, 0 Comments. Try doing a crontab -r to reload the crontab file. Forester1 Posted May 10, 0 Comments. Did you refresh your cron daemon after restoring the crontab file? I lost the crontab with crontab -r. Lamar Saxon Posted May 10, 0 Comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Chris Kessler Chris Kessler 41 1 1 bronze badge. Thanks for your help. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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Aidin you are my savior! Note to self: Never edit the crontab file while server space is full. Phew that was close! I've now added a cron to backup my crontab everyday : — SidJ. Show 1 more comment.

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Newsletter Topics Select minimum 1 topic. Operating Systems. Good day, I had my backupjobs on the crontab, when I do crontab -l, I get nothing and when I do crontab -e I get an empty file with this at the bottom. Bob Bogar Posted October 25, 0 Comments.