Cronjobs in linux

[Shrikant Lavhate]

Hi Gurus,

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

[Hemmetter]

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

[Shrikant Lavhate]

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.

[Hemmetter · Accepted solution]

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

[Shrikant Lavhate]

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