How can I see/stop current running crontab tasks?

1. How can I see crontab tasks which are in progress?
2. How can I stop crontab tasks which are in progress, manually?

Is [this] question about see the current running cron processes?

Yes

To kill a process manually one way is to use pkill

I had thought about pkill/killall, but some of my commands in crontab file are respectively! it means that after finishing a command, the next one will be started! for example:

sudo crontab -e
00 10 * * * /usr/bin/wget LINK ; shutdown -h now

So, If I kill wget, the computer will be powered off!!! -> I want to kill a cron task fully, not a part of it!

The next pkill problem: What about scripts? (I've imported some bash scripts to crontab -e) --> sudo pkill ???

Solution 1:

Firstly, use only one command per line in crontab. Change this crontab line:

00 10 * * * /usr/bin/wget LINK ; shutdown -h now

so it looks like:

00 10 * * * /path/to/my/crontab/script1.sh

and create /path/to/my/crontab/script1.sh with this content:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/wget LINK
shutdown -h now

Of course, don't forget to give it execution permission:

chmod +x /path/to/my/crontab/script1.sh

Secondly, you can see running crontab tasks, in a useful and readable format, in the output of:

ps -o pid,sess,cmd afx | egrep -A20 "( |/)cron( -f)?$"

They will appear in the first lines, something like this:

1108  1108 cron
4288  1108 \_ CRON
4289  4289     \_ /bin/sh -c /path/to/my/crontab/script1.sh
4290  4289         \_ /bin/bash /path/to/my/crontab/script1.sh
4295  4289             \_ /usr/bin/wget LINK

First column is PID, second is Session ID and third is the command started by cron. You can kill all the processes related to a specific cron task using the Session ID, so in the example above you should kill Session ID 4289:

pkill -s 4289