OT - Unix Cron

[Keith Owens]

Can anybody clear up a mystery for me.

I wanted cron to be stopped so I renamed the file; mv root root.old

In the middle of my dump & reload a backup started - cron was running the schedulled tasks for root even though the file was now called root.old?

What did I do wrong?

 

[ELaci]

Can anybody clear up a mystery for me.

I wanted cron to be stopped so I renamed the file; mv root root.old

In the middle of my dump & reload a backup started - cron was running the schedulled tasks for root even though the file was now called root.old?

What did I do wrong?

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Hi!
It was a good idea to rename the "root" file to "root.old", but you must run the "crontab -e" with the new empty "root" file. It restarts the cron scheduler without any tasks.
ELaci

 

[Keith Owens]

Mystery solved.

Many thanks.