Suspend Cron job temprory

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi

Is there any way to suspend cron job without ommitting crontab entries??

I have a no of entries in crontab, which runs daily.......... what if I want to suspend all process in cron one day . Is there any one line command for it ??

Please suggest

Rergards
Pankaj

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You can just comment it out until you are ready for it to run again.

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Hi

THanks for your reply , but commenting will not serve my purpose, as I have 15-16 job entries in crontab, & commenting each would be a cumbersome job.

Also if any one can tell about the limitation of entries in crontab file. I mean how many process can be entered in crontab ??

Any help will be appreciated

Regards

Pankaj

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To suppress all jobs from crontab :

crontab -l > cronfile.dat   # Save actual crontab file
crontab -r                  # Remove crontab file

To restor all jobs :

crontab < cronfile.dat

Jean-Pierre.

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EDIT: ooops isread the post.