Home → Evergreen: Basic System Admin Functions → Housekeeping → Quickly Update Crontab for Restart
In order to quickly comment out the crontab for restarts, open crontab with vim as root and type the following:
crontab -u opensrf -e
This opens the crontab for editing. Once within vim, type the following:
:%s/^/###/g
This tells vim that you want to replace every escape sequence with a triple pound sign, thus commenting out the crontab so random scheduled scripts don't start while you are re-starting and muck everything up.
To save the fine work you've just performed, type :wq [enter]
Change to the opensrf user and perform your restart. Exit back to root.
Go back into crontab:
crontab -u opensrf -e
This opens the crontab again for editing. Once within vim, type the following:
:%s/###//g
Notice that you are removing the pounds and making everything normal again.
Save it again with :wq [enter]
Keep in mind that every time a crontab is edited, the crontab is instantly reloaded.