How Do I Stop a Cron Job in Linux?
Contents How Do I Stop a Cron Job? How to Remove a Crontab File Remove the Crontab File. $ Crontab -R [ Username ] Where Username Specifies the Name of the...
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How do I stop a cron job?
How to Remove a crontab File
- Remove the crontab file. $ crontab -r [ username ] where username specifies the name of the user’s account for which you want to remove a crontab file. …
- Verify that the crontab file has been removed. # ls /var/spool/cron/crontabs.
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- > = redirect.
- 2>&1 = redirects stderr (standard errors) and stdout (standard output).
- -s = forwards the output to system log.
- -m off = disables cron emails.
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