UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,

I am not the unix person but have to disable cron job on the server

I typed crontab -l to list the job there is one job
then i tried crontab -e and got one result 100 ( i do not know what that means)

how can i disable the job to run i want to disable the job.

Please show me step to save and exit from the job edit as well.

Thanks

Hi.

What do you mean "one result 100"?

When you typed "crontab -e", what exactly happened?

Which OS, which shell are you using (echo $0).

If you can't be bothered with any of that, cfajohnson has a good suggestion here:

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ab-script.html

on the crontab -e i get 100 there is just one job on the cron list though

Hi.

Type:

Code:

crontab -l | sed '/./ s/^/#/' | crontab -

It will comment out (disable) all cronjobs - as there is only one, it will disable that one. If there's more than one, replace /./ with /_some_string_that_uniquely_identifes_the_job_I_want_to_disable/ where _some_string_that_uniquely_identifes_the_job_I_want_to_disable is some string that uniquely identifies the job that you want to disable.