AIX Scheduling commands

To list the crontab entries:

#crontab -l

To edit the crontab entries:

#crontab -e

To copies the entries of crontab to crontab.txt file:

#crontab -l > crontab.txt

To remove all crontab entries:

#crontab -r

To list the submission time:

#crontab -v

File containing users who allowed cron service:

#/var/adm/cron/cron.allow

File containing users denied cron service:

#/var/adm/cron/cron.deny

To list the jobs scheduled via at command:

#at -l

To remove the scheduled job root.dofsdofsd.69:

#at -r root.dofsdofsd.69

File containing users who allowed at service:

#/var/adm/cron/at.allow

File containing users denied at service:

#/var/adm/cron/at.deny

To run the command when the system load permits:

#batch

To list all the jobs submitted by user gzuser:

#atq gzuser

To start a job with at:

#at now [font=Verdana][color=green]<- [ENTER][/color][/font]
/some/script.sh [font=Verdana][color=green]<- [ENTER][/color][/font]
[font=Verdana][color=green]<- CTRL+d[/color][/font]
job 4 at Sat Oct 15 21:15:00 2011
#

How to list your background jobs:

core:~# jobs
[1]   Running                 sleep 1000 &
[2]   Running                 sleep 1000 &
[3]-  Running                 sleep 1000 &
[4]+  Running                 sleep 1000 &

How to kill a background job:

core:~# kill %2
[2]   Terminated              sleep 1000