How to start/stop cron jobs on live server

UNIX Solaris
1

Hi,

I am working with a company where some times i need to start/stop cron jobs on need basis.

I have one option to kill cron daemon.Is it right?
Please correct me.

Waiting for your reply.

Thanks in advance..

2

Why wouldn't you just comment out the specific cron job(s) you want to not run from the crontab? when you are ready for them to run again, you just uncomment them in crontab.

3

Instead of killing the daemon and starting it. Use /etc/init.d/cron stop and /etc/init.d/cron start.

OR

if you just wish to refresh the cron daemon to reread the entries give HUP signal to cron daemon.

#kill -HUP PID #### (PID is for cron daemon)