How to stop cron process

[Giovanni Sarta]

Hello:

I would like to know how can I stop and start the cron process in a
script.

In other Unix platforms it can be done with
PATH/cron stop and PATH/cron start, but I tried in AIX and it doesnt
work.

Thanks for your help

Giovanni Sarta
giovann...@citicorp.com

[Mirco Müller]

Hello back,
if you want to stop cron-jobs from users, su to the user and type:
crontab -r.
To start the crontab use:
su - user
crontab /..../crontab.file
To controll look at crontab or look in:
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/!!!
All files in there, are cronjobs from users.

Bis dann
Mirco

Giovanni Sarta schrieb:

[Mirco Müller]

[Mirco Müller]

[Mirco Müller]

[Yohannes Amare]

Giovanni, lookup the man page for the crontab command!
Hope this helps.

Yohannes.
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[AIXMighty!]

man cron & init

and

for one thing, you need root access to stop cron (if i understood your
question correctly). cron is controlled by init. you can turn off cron
with chitab "cron:2:off:/usr/sbin/cron" and to turn it back on, change
the :off: to :respawn:

if you're trying to start/stop a script that is controlled by cron, man
crontab

Orphy! :-)
Dallas, TX

In article <3665E07D...@citicorp.com>,

[Giovanni Sarta]

Orphy:

Thanks. It solved the problem.