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S2000-025 · Question #78
An administrator has scheduled a job using cron to run a script every day at midnight, but they want to temporarily disable that script. What is the simplest and least error-prone way to accomplish…
The correct answer is B. Add # at the beginning of the line in the crontab file. You've hit your weekly limit · resets 5am (America/New_York)
AIX 7.3 System Management
Question
An administrator has scheduled a job using cron to run a script every day at midnight, but they want to temporarily disable that script. What is the simplest and least error-prone way to accomplish this?
Options
- AChange the permissions so that the crontab cannot be executed
- BAdd # at the beginning of the line in the crontab file
- CUse the crontab -d command to disable the crontab
- DDelete the line from the crontab file and add it again when it is needed again
How the community answered
(49 responses)- A16% (8)
- B71% (35)
- C8% (4)
- D4% (2)
Explanation
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Topics
#cron#job scheduling#crontab#task management
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