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You could rename /etc/rc2.d/S75cron to /etc/rc2.d/s75cron.
Note the lowercase "s".
Then reboot.
To stop it without rebooting
find the cron process
# ps -ef | grep cron
root 217 1 0 08:41:49 ? 0:00 /usr/grep/cron
then kill it
# kill -9 217
However cron can run important system functions, stopping it might affect your system. It may be better to stop users having access to cron by adding their user names to /etc/cron.d/cron.deny.
Steve
Note the lowercase "s".
Then reboot.
To stop it without rebooting
find the cron process
# ps -ef | grep cron
root 217 1 0 08:41:49 ? 0:00 /usr/grep/cron
then kill it
# kill -9 217
However cron can run important system functions, stopping it might affect your system. It may be better to stop users having access to cron by adding their user names to /etc/cron.d/cron.deny.
Steve
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