hi

i got to shut down my server for the new year day. i am required to disable all cronjob temporarily. what is the command to do so?
after start up the server will the cron job run itself automatically or i gotta restart all again?

I do n't think u have to do any thing in perticular.
crontab entries pick up automatically.

Check crontab entries by 'crontab -l' after reboot.

If it shows all entries, ... then u do n't need to worry
abt any thing.

Gee, if you shut down your server, that should do it. Computers won't run cron jobs while they're shut off. And yes, the start up scripts should restart cron when you power up your system.

If you want to stop and restart cron while leaving the server up, there is generally a way to that safely by running the cron start-up and shut-down scripts manually. If you tell us what type of system you have, we can help you with details on this.

hi thanks for the prompt reply
i am running on unix server.
wat is the command to disable cron service if the system it still up?

What kind of unix server??? Run "uname -a" and post the results.

the result is
SunOS statsfs07 5.8 Generic_117000-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

from here can i know what version of solaris is it runnin?
how to see wat version its in?
thanks

i guess ..... by simply commenting crontab entries by #
will not trigger cron jobs.


to edit cron entries ... do 'crontab -e '


and do comment crontab entries.

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.

Experts
How do I turn off jobs in UNIX ( not by #) . Is there any command to do ?

I have
HP-UX
B.11.11


Thanks
Krishna