Posted on: February 26, 2020 05:14 PM
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Commands for Ubuntu/Mint/Debian based Linux distro
Commands for Ubuntu/Mint/Debian based Linux distro
Task: Debian Start cron service
To start the cron service, use:
/etc/init.d/cron start
OR
$ sudo /etc/init.d/cron start
OR
$ sudo service cron start
Task: Debian Stop cron service
To stop the cron service, use:
/etc/init.d/cron stop
OR
$ sudo /etc/init.d/cron stop
OR
$ sudo service cron stop
Task: Debian Restart cron service
To restart the cron service, use:
/etc/init.d/cron restart
OR
$ sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart
OR
$ sudo service cron restart
Task : Start the cron service at boot time
It is recommended that you start the service at boot time so that job can run w/o problems.
If you are using Redhat (RHEL)/Fedora Core/Cent OS Linux use the following commands to ensure that the service remains enabled after a reboot:
chkconfig crond on
You can use a text based GUI tool called ntsysv to enable crond service:
ntsysv
If you are using Debian or Ubuntu Linux use the following commands to ensure that the service remains enabled after a reboot:
rcconf
OR
$ sudo rcconf
You can use command line tool update-rc.d:
update-rc.d cron defaults
OR
$ sudo update-rc.d cron defaults
Commands for RHEL/Fedora/CentOS/Scientific Linux user
Task: Start cron service
To start the cron service, use:
/etc/init.d/crond start
OR RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x user:
service crond start
OR RHEL/Centos Linux 7.x user:
systemctl start crond.service
Task: Stop cron service
To stop the cron service, use:
/etc/init.d/crond stop
OR RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x user:
service crond stop
OR RHEL/Centos Linux 7.x user:
systemctl stop crond.service
Task: Restart cron service
To restart the cron service, use:
/etc/init.d/crond restart
OR RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x user:
service crond restart
OR RHEL/Centos Linux 7.x user:
systemctl restart crond.service
Turns out, Emacs was adding some sort of funky characters at the end according to the “EOF”…
I used vi instead:
$ export VISUAL=vim
$ crontab -e
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