How do you delete an exisiting cron job?

- Ed

I always wondered what a cron job was. Is it just like a repeating cycle for a program?

crontab -e

That wil open up an editor (vi by default, unless you've changed the default editor to be pico) with all the cron jobs. Just delete the line with the job you want out and save and exit.

A cronjob is a scheduled task your server will execute at the designated time.

Any idea how to change the default editor from VI to pico for crontab?



Salam,
-Omair

export EDITOR=pico

Im getting the following cron error! Can anybody tell me cause and fix for it?
Subject: Cron <root@www> run-parts /etc/cron.weekly All headers
> > Read file error: ./expn.1 No such file or directory

Thanks in advance

Originally posted by Dimension8
Im getting the following cron error! Can anybody tell me cause and fix for it?
Subject: Cron <root@www> run-parts /etc/cron.weekly All headers
> > Read file error: ./expn.1 No such file or directory

Thanks in advance

Yep,

One of the scripts in /etc/cron.weekly has "expn.1" in it. That can't be found or read.

To find the script try:

cd /etc/cron.weekly
egrep -l expn.1 *

The egrep should return the name of the file(s) that have that string in it.

Frank

I have had that line (and more) in my cron.weekly log for decades. Never found out what is was, but I'm sure it has something to with "makewhatis", but I haven't got a clue what that is or does.

And no, the egrep thing doesn't work

Nope didnt bring anything up for me either.


:(