Cron job does not want to stop

[take2mir]

Hi experts,
I really need your help. I had created cron job as below

#UTILIZATION CAPTURE
0 * * * * /usr/bin/sh /utilization/script

with this script

#!/bin/sh
sar -u 10 12 >> /utilization/sp2bm03cpu.txt
(date && vmstat) >> /utilization/sp2bm03mem.txt

However when I delete this cron job, it still keep producing the sp2bm03cpu.txt and xp2bm03mem.txt files. How should I do to make it stop?

TQ

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

How are you deleteing the cron job? If you simply edit the files under /var/spool, you have done nothing because you have not changed cron's in memory paramters. The correct procedure is:
crontab -l > mycronfile
Next edit mycronfile and remove the desired entry. Finally, "crontab < mycronfile" which not only alters the files under /var/spool but also sends a SIGHUP to the cron daemon that tells it to reread its configuration files.

[take2mir]

Yeah, right.. Thank you

[take2mir]

I got my answer here :-)

[Dennis Handly]

>Clay: also sends a SIGHUP to the cron daemon that tells it to reread its configuration files.

No SIGHUPs here. It puts a message in the cron FIFO: /var/adm/cron/FIFO