cron postpone

[Michael Murphy_2]

Hello - does anyone have an elegant solution for the situation of shutting down all of cron jobs for a period - (without actually commenting out all entries) - and also playing "catch up" of the jobs after cron is re-activated? This is for system maintenance. Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Michael:

Instead of commenting out entries, simply move the entire crontab into a file divorced from the cron daemon; perform your maintenance; and restore the file to cron:

# crontab -l > /${HOME}/mycrontab
# crontab -r
...[maintenance occurs]...
# crontab ${HOME}/mycrontab

As for "catching-up", 'cron' isn't going to help you. You either ignore the event that went by, or you manually re-run the crontab entry (line).

Elegant? No. Simple? Yes.

Regards!

...JRF...

[SKR_1]

# /sbin/init.d/cron start <-- start cron
# /sbin/init.d/cron stop <-- stop cron

Thanks

SKR

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Sadly HP-UX does not have a atd daemon which will run cron jobs after the fact if the system is offline for some time. Linux does.

I'd just shut the daemon for a while and re-run what needed after the outage.

SEP

[SKR_1]

You can refer the below link

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/hp-ux-unix-cron-job-configuration-tutorial/

Thanks

SKR