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Old 12-29-2004
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That 5.8 tells you that you have SunOS 5.8 aka Solaris 8.

To stop cron:

/etc/init.d/cron stop


To restart cron:

/etc/init.d/cron start


And by the way, there should be no reason to do this unless your own applications cannot have the year change.
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