zmcontrol start/stop vs. zimbra user cron table

[fisch09]

Hi,

Is there an short and easy way to enable/disable the zimbra user cron table?
If I stop zimbra - either using /etc/init.d/zimbra stop or zmcontrol stop I may don't want to have the zimbra cronjobs running anymore. (BTW: how does this effect an running upgrade?).

Kind Regards
Andre

[dwmtractor]

I should start by asking why? Are you stopping Zimbra for an extended period of time, therefore there's a lot of cron that you don't want to happen? It would seem to me that once you have Zimbra installed you'll normally keep it up and running.

However, if it's going to be down for an extended period of time and you want to turn off that cron:

You probably ought to double check this with someone that knows more about Linux than I to make sure I'm not saying something monumentally stupid, but this should work:

1)

su - zimbra

2) Back up your crontab:

crontab -l > /tmp/myzimbracrontab

or wherever else you want to store it, just don't forget

3)

crontab -d

This will delete the whole crontab for the zimbra user. Then when you want to re-activate it you simply:

crontab /tmp/myzimbracrontab

and it'll be re-imported