[Asterisk-Users] Cron still running after uninstalling asterisk

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 13 Nov 2005, at 13:08, Tim Ashman wrote:

> Can someone help me here.  I installed asterisk briefly just to see  
> if it
> would install on my suse 9.3 system and now I can get rid of a cron  
> job that
> goes every minute.
>
> I've deleted the asterisk user, looked in all of the cron files I  
> can think of
> but it is beyond me.
>
> Here is the line that keeps trying.  The directory referred to  
> doesn't even
> exist anymore.
>
> Nov 13 10:06:01 home /usr/sbin/cron[21829]: (root) CMD
> (/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/run_wakeups)

Not sure about SuSE, but on RedHat(ish) systems, cron jobs can be...

- defined for specific users (written out to /var/spool/cron)
- inside /etc/cron.hourly|daily|weekly
- inside /etc/cron.d
- written into /etc/crontab directly (an indicator for bad systems  
administration)

jens