Magento 2 - How to disable cronjob temporarily

Question

I have a crojob in my custom module and want to disable it temporarily

The xml files for the cronjob are:

app/code/Vendor/Module/etc/cron_groups.xml
app/code/Vendor/Module/etc/crontab.xml

I have tried to comment out the code fro cron scheduling

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Cron:etc/crontab.xsd">
    <group id="my_cron_id">

        <!--<job name="my_cron_name" instance="Vendor\Module\Cron\MyCron" method="execute">
            <schedule>0 3 * * *</schedule>
        </job>-->

    </group>
</config>

But after this, my module went stopped working with no error.

I just simply wants to disable it temporarily how can I do this?

Answer 1

I think if you have only one cronjob in your crontab.xml file and you want to remove it, you should rename your file to be _crontab.xml and clear the cache.

Answer 2

You can run the cron command cron:remove.
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