Deactivating single cron job via command line

[frederick hannah]

Is there a command where I can deactivate or activate an individual cron job without impacting cron itself?

[Stuart Abramson]

Not to my knowledge.

I ususally do something like this:

crontab > file.orig
cp file.orig file.new
vi file.new
crontab < file.new

You could do something like:

crontab -l | sed 's/^LINE/#LINE/' > file.new
crontab < file.new

where LINE is the line you want to deactivate; but it's a risky thing.

I guess you want to turn off a cronjob automatically by script...

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Frederick,

You could temparary change the script cron calls by a dummy one that does an exit 0.

HTH,

Gideon

[frederick hannah]

Thanks for the response. I will try the "exit 0" solution.

[frederick hannah]

I think I have found the solution in scripting