On Aug 20 06:41, Unknown wrote: > Because I want to put the thread in suspend mode, instead of just stopping > and restarting. I don't want the cron to start from the beginning.
I'm not sure what the difference is, behaviour-wise, and I'm also not sure if cron doesn't choke on this (cron is known for problems resulting from jumps in the current timestamp), but you can simply try to send SIGSTOP/SIGCONT from an administrative account to the cron process, like this: kill -STOP $(cat /var/run/cron.pid) kill -CONT $(cat /var/run/cron.pid) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
