Deleted root's crontab

[Boing Ball]

I accidentally replaced root's crontab with the system wide crontab on a new system, before I took full backup. Could anyone copy and paste Wheezy's default crontab for root here to save my time, please?

[dasein]

Or... you could solve this problem all by yourself in a matter of minutes, simply by copying the file over from a fresh install (even from inside a VM).

And you might want to make that backup as soon as you're done copying.

[Boing Ball]

Woah, that was helpful. Why didn't you suggest reinstall?

[lkraemer]

On my Debian 7.x (64 Bit) install there is no root crontab as this shows:

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root@debian:~# crontab -l
no crontab for root
root@debian:~#

and I don't have any as user.

Larry

[Boing Ball]

On my Debian 7.x (64 Bit) install there is no root crontab as this shows:

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root@debian:~# crontab -l
no crontab for root
root@debian:~#

and I don't have any as user.

Thanks for answering, but I swear I had one with content in it, when I first run crontab -e.

This is a cosmetic issue anyway, and that's why I would not want to spend much time to fix it. Just to wipe out a stupid error on my part.

[lkraemer]

in /etc there is a file named crontab with the following permissions:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 722 Jul 3 2012 crontab

larry@debian:/etc$ cat crontab

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# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user	command
17 *	* * *	root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6	* * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6	* * 7	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6	1 * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
#

Is that what you are looking for?

Larry

[Boing Ball]

larry@debian:/etc$ cat crontab

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# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user	command
17 *	* * *	root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6	* * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6	* * 7	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6	1 * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
#

Is that what you are looking for?

No, this is system wide crontab that somehow replaced my root account's crontab. I have that one still intact.

[lkraemer]

OK tell me exactly what you want me to run to display the crontab you are looking for? As root or loginuser do this:

I've got a basically clean install as far as cron goes.

Larry

[lkraemer]

As root if I do a:

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crontab -e

root@debian:~# crontab -e
no crontab for root - using an empty one
No modification made
root@debian:~#

I get a file with the contents of:

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# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h  dom mon dow   command

Larry

[Boing Ball]

I get a file with the contents of:

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# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h  dom mon dow   command

Thank you, that it is.