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Aavik
Aavik

Reputation: 1037

How can I schedule a cron job but not execute it?

I wanted to create a crontab file with schedule but do not want it to run. How can I achieve this?

I created a crontab file using crontab -e, added the job. This has started running. I do not want this to run as the job should be scheduled ad hoc.

I wanted to prepare and keep and use the schedule on ad hoc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 275

Answers (2)

rblock
rblock

Reputation: 58

You could test for a file to be present and if it does it'll execute your task:

5 * * * * user test -f /var/lock/subsys/myfile && /home/user/backup.sh

Thus when you are ready. You just

touch /var/lock/subsys/myfile

and the script starts within the next five minutes.

But you have to make sure to remove the lock file afterwards.

Upvotes: 1

Slawomir Chodnicki
Slawomir Chodnicki

Reputation: 1545

You can comment your schedule line out with a leading #, and remove the comment marker again when you want it to run.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/crontab.5.html

Upvotes: 1

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