I deleted my cron jobs from cPanel, but it's still working. How to stop?

Question

Got a problem.
I created a cron job via cPanel and after what deleted it, but it didn't stop working.
Anyone knows how to stop my crons?

Answer 1

If your looking to stop cron jobs all together (I believe this can be done in WHM as well):

/etc/init.d/crond stop

You may need to reload crond (although cPanel should have done that itself)

/etc/init.d/crond reload

or

/etc/init.d/crond restart

Check out its usage:

Usage: /etc/init.d/crond {start|stop|status|reload|restart|condrestart}

If that didn't fix it check if it's running:

ps -A | grep crond

And then try to kill it:

killall crond

If all fails, you may want to try restarting the server and see if that fixes it.

Answer 2

Just in case the crontab entry wasn't actually removed:

set $EDITOR=vi # or your editor of choice
crontab -e

Then put a # at the start of the line you want stopped.

Answer 3

Check the corresponding user cron manually via shell, (assuming u have root)

crontab -u username -e

and remove the corresponding cron entry. Or simply null the user crontab and restart crond,

>/var/spool/cron/username

service crond restart