how to kill this process?

[jazzmuzik]

I usually stop process with something like 'kill -9 <id>'. There are
other methods I've seen.

You could shut down cron altogether with this:

/etc/init.d/cron stop

cron merely launches other programs based on the clock, so you could
either stop whatever program cron has launched, or edit the crontab
file to make it stop launching a particular program.


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jazzmuzik