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I created a cronjob years ago, now it is still running on the server but I can't locate it with "crontab -e", what can I do?

two years ago I created a cronjob which execute a python script to backup stuff. Now, the thing is that this cronjob is still running: /var/log/cron.log.1:Oct 9 20:00:02 syslogngsrv CRON[28292]: (...
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Output of 'date +%a' always in system-language?

Does date +%a output always the weekday in the system language? No matter if in bash, sh or cronjob
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Automating SFTP transfers

I'm new - Very new to UNIX and have been dropped in the deep end. I an trying to automate the transfer of files from a remote SFTP server back to our SFTP server, I need to login using an SSH ...
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cronjob not finding commands [duplicate]

I am running (and also new to) OS X El Capitan. I have a user cronjob that is using some basic commands that I got via brew. wget and s3cmd I have the cronjob executing a shel script in my user bin, ...
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Many cron -f processes on unresponsive server

My Debian server had again become unresponsive and needed to be restartet (SSH login impossible, no longer transmitted log data to another server's MySQL Database, no new FTP connections possible, but ...
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Cron job for moving directories older than 24 hours

Well, what I want to do is The cron should run every hour or so It should move the directories in a folder /disk1/data/ older than 24 hours to /disk2/data/ The directories moved should contain all ...
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