Overwrite all 1 minute cron jobs?

[tejli]

Hello cPanel Community.

Is there a command that will overwrite all users 1 minute cron jobs to 5 minutes?
There have been many questions on this in the past but no answer provided.

I can see some providers already have removes the 1 minute from the drop list and some providers are overwriting automatically the crons from 1 min to 15.

I hope good knowing man/woman will post a solution.

Thank you!!

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hello @tejli

You could most likely write something with sed to replace * with */5

How to use sed to find and replace text in files in Linux / Unix shell - nixCraft

sed(1) - Linux man page

 

[GOT]

The problem you are going to run in to here is each category could and probably does use an asterisk. This SHOULD work, but I only did limited testing, so back up your files first.

replace "* * * * *" "*/15 * * * *" -- /var/spool/cron/*

Someone may have done something silly so you may also want to run

replace "*/1 * * * *" "*/15 * * * *" -- /var/spool/cron/*

 

[tejli]

The problem you are going to run in to here is each category could and probably does use an asterisk. This SHOULD work, but I only did limited testing, so back up your files first.

replace "* * * * *" "*/15 * * * *" -- /var/spool/cron/*

Someone may have done something silly so you may also want to run

replace "*/1 * * * *" "*/15 * * * *" -- /var/spool/cron/*

Thank you!!!

As I know this one will replace even hourly or daily crons to 15 min right?
replace "* * * * *" "*/15 * * * *" -- /var/spool/cron/*

2:
This one will replace cpanel users crons or servers crons only?

 

[GOT]

It will not change anything other than the minutely crons.

It will change the user crons which includes the user root. But not the system crons in /etc/cron*