Start/Stop/Restart cron service in Redhat/Fedora/CentOS
Centos 7 :
systemctl stop crond.service systemctl restart crond.service systemctl start crond.service
If you are using Redhat/Fedora/CentOS Linux login as root and use the following commands.
Start cron service
To start cron service, enter:
/etc/init.d/crond start
Or
service crond start
Stop cron service
To stop cron service, enter:
/etc/init.d/crond stop
Or
service crond stop
Restart cron service
To restart cron service, enter:
/etc/init.d/crond restart
Or
service crond restart
Start/Stop/Restart cron service in Debian/Ubuntu
If you are using Debian/Ubuntu Linux login as root and use the following commands.
Start cron service
To start cron service, enter:
sudo /etc/init.d/cron start
Or
sudo service cron start
Stop cron service
To stop cron service, enter:
sudo /etc/init.d/cron stop
Or
sudo service cron stop
Restart cron service
To restart cron service, enter:
sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart
Or
sudo service cron restart