How would I suspend all use of crontab until the system is rebooted? The system runs ubuntu 24.04. I say all use because several IDs on the system have crontabs.
1 Answer
Stop its service
sudo systemctl stop cron.service
(It would make more sense to start cron BEFORE reboot if you do it after the "@reboot" options in your crontabs will not activate
manual restart:
sudo systemctl start cron.service
)
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Excellent point that a reboot will not restart a service which has been intentially stopped. I forgot that point.– thing1Commented Aug 26 at 15:16
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@thing1 it will. Why do you think that? With systemd you need to
disablea service to prevent it from starting on reboot– muruCommented Aug 26 at 15:34 -
@thing1 it will be it is far more logical to start BEFORE reboot and not after a reboot– RinzwindCommented Aug 26 at 16:07