Command to stop all the cron jobs

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

Please provide the command to stop all the cron jobs.

Thanks in Advance

Regards,
Sindu

2

Do you mean all cron jobs for all users? Or just the cronjobs for a particular user?

type in

crontab -e

as the user you want to disable crons. Then comment out each line.

4

To remove a users cron jobs, run this as that user:

> "$HOME/nocronjobs"
crontab "$HOME/nocronjobs"

To stop all cron jobs (as root):

kill $(pgrep cron)

(Note that pgrep is not a standard command.)