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Cronjobs in linux

Shrikant Lavhate — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:37:00 GMT

Hi Gurus,

Can any one help me out to securely disable and enable cron jobs in linux?

Re: Cronjobs in linux

Hemmetter — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:34:21 GMT

Hi,

that varies on which distribution/version of linux resp. version of cron.

See crontab(1) for more information.

Have FILES section:

through
/var/spool/cron/allow
/var/spool/cron/deny
resp.
/etc/cron.allow
/etc/cron.deny

you can control cron-usage.

rgds
HGH

Re: Cronjobs in linux

Shrikant Lavhate — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:38:02 GMT

Actually,

I want to disable cron jobs for some time not for some users. Say during some installtion of application I want to disable cronjobs so that they shuld not interfere or cause any disturbance in installtion and after installation is over I will enable cronjobs. Thats what I need.

Re: Cronjobs in linux

Hemmetter — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:56:07 GMT

Hi,

the you have to stop crond at all:

either with
$ rccron stop # on e.g. SuSE
or
$ service crond stop # on e.g. RedHat

and start it again after your tasks.
$rccron start
or
$ service crond start

rgds
HGH

Re: Cronjobs in linux

Shrikant Lavhate — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:12:04 GMT

ok done. Just wanna know abt linux it was pretty same in hpux with #/etc/init.d/crond stop