Sunday, June 28, 2009

How to disable a cron job?

Simply click on Disable icon. Your cron job will be disabled, and no longer be executed.

For Unix/Linux users, you can simply edit your crontab file (using crontab -e), and add # at beginning of cron job line you wanna disable.

For example, you have this cron job:
*/5 * * * * lynx http://example.com/backup.php
And you wanna disable it. Change it into:
#*/5 * * * * lynx http://example.com/backup.php

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the posting.

    Is there any other way than commenting the jobs, because I have more number of corn jobs to be disabled for a day.

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