Do we need to put namenode in safe mode before restarting the job tracker?

I have a Hadoop cluster running Cloudera's CDH3, Apache Hadoop's 0.20.2 equivalent. I want to restart the job-tracker as there are some jobs which are not getting killed. I tried killing them from the command line, the command executes successfully, but the jobs are still in Job Cleanup: Pending status. Anyways I want to restart the job-tracker and see if that cleanup the jobs. I know the command to restart the job-tracker, but I am not sure if I need to put the name-node in safe-mode before I restart the job-tracker.