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I know this is a dumb problem, but I cannot seem to locate/access a group of cron jobs that I have running (which I know are running, because everything is working properly and we can see the expected output of the scripts the crons are calling) on a CentOS server CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503

I set these cron jobs up well over 6 months ago on a server I don't regularly use, but I believe/recall that I just set them up using crontab in my home directory. But now, I cannot seem to find these crons anywhere on the server.

I'm my home directory I've tried:

crontab -u userName -l

and

crontab -l

And nothing shows up. So I listed running processes with ps -xa and got they showed up:

 9479 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/CROND -n
 9497 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/sh -c /home/local/UT/malvin/HHFB/HHFBUploader.py
 9498 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /home/local/UT/malvin/HHFB/HHFBUploader.py
21043 ?        S      0:04 [kworker/u4:2]
27662 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/CROND -n
27671 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/sh -c /home/local/UT/malvin/HoopsHypeFB/HHFBUploader.p
27675 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python /home/local/UT/malvin/HHFB/HHFBUploa
28382 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/CROND -n
28389 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/sh -c /home/local/UT/malvin/FTFB/FTFBUploader.py >> 
28390 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/python/home/local/UT/malvin/FTFB/FTFBUploader.py

The lines with the Python files are the scripts being called by the crons jobs. When I checked crontab in the directories /usr/sbin/ or /bin/ nothing comes up. I also tried: 

ls /etc/cron*

But nothing that looks like it pertains to these Python scripts comes up.

AdjunctProfessorFalcon
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The first place I would look is in the logs. Specifically /var/log/cron. That's the log file that the cron logs all it's activity to.

user9517
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One possible location for crontabs is /var/spool/cron/crontabs.

Tero Kilkanen
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