How to kill the daily cron process?

[dedanna1029]

It's doing its "run 24/7" crap again, and I've had enough. So has my computer. Problem is, it won't die. Not even if I use -9, not if I shut down, nothing. I want to make it go away. How? Arch, this is my desktop computer. It's been running since night before last (and yes, it's cron, according to top, there's nothing else that can be running like this).

Thanks.

[Joste]

# /etc/init.d/crond stop

Try that.

[viking60]

What Joste said cept you must use rc.d (not init.d) :

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sudo rc.d stop crond

or:
Could we have a

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crontab -l

please and a

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sudo crontab -l

please?

PS:
You can list your daemons with
rc.d list

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[thomas@viking60-server ~]$ rc.d list
[STOPPED][    ] 915resolution
[STOPPED][    ] acpid
[STOPPED][    ] adsl
[STOPPED][AUTO] appset-helper
[STOPPED][    ] autofs
[STOPPED][    ] avahi-daemon
[STOPPED][    ] avahi-dnsconfd
[STOPPED][    ] bluetooth
[STOPPED][    ] brltty
[STOPPED][    ] bttrack
[STOPPED][    ] capiinit
[STOPPED][    ] cpufreq
[STARTED][AUTO] crond
[STARTED][AUTO] cupsd
[STARTED][AUTO] dbus
[STOPPED][    ] deluge-web
etc... etc..
etc...


[dedanna1029]

Thanks, sorry, didn't know I could give a services command for it.

No can do the code for ya. The thing's offline still, and I can't copy/paste it. Am on the phone.

Will try that and be back later - several things going on right now. Thanks again.

[dedanna1029]

Hey, sorry not to get back sooner. It has indeed been an insane, crazy life the last few days.

That got it, /etc/rc.d/crond stop.

Thanks, you two.

[viking60]

Yes.
In Arch you do not need to enter the path.

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rc.d stop crond

is enough, and does the same as

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/etc/rc.d/crond stop

[dedanna1029]

Ah, ok. Wasn't aware of that one. This whole time I've been using the traditional method with services. Thanks!