Cpanel and crontabs

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Hello Web Guru,

I am used to setting up crontabs via the commandline.

Recently bought a dedicated server that has cpanel and have noticed that when I add a crontab in cpanel whether it be via the standard or advanced interface, I see no evidence that it was added.

When I go back into standard or advanced I would expect that I would see the previous job that I added.

When I try to add a cron job from the commandline I get permission denied.

Code:

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sthoma45@hidden [~/public_html/bulletins/imported]# crontab -e
cron/sthoma45: Permission denied

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Where are the cronjobs stored on the filesystem when I add them via the cpanel interface and why does cpanel tell me the craontab is updated but when I go back into the standard or advanced interface I see no evidence of any added cronjobs?

Thanks, David

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