On Wed 03 Mar 04, 9:24 AM, Jeff Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Ken Bloom wrote: > > > > > On 2004.03.03 04:38, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > cron is running sometime around 7:30am: > > > > > > 8646 ? SN 0:00 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily > > > 8651 ? SN 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/checksecurity > > > 8678 ? SN 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/checksecurity > > > 8714 ? SN 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/share/checksecurity/check-setuid > > > 8724 ? RN 0:06 find / /boot /var /usr/local /home /data -xdev > > > ( -fal > > > 8725 ? SN 0:00 sort > > > 8733 ? R 0:00 xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] date > > > Wed Mar 03 7:37 AM > > > > > > > > > yet, i think it should at 4:25am if i have my fields correct: > > > > > > > > > SHELL=/bin/sh > > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > > > > > > 17 * * * * root run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly > > > 25 4 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report > > > /etc/cron.daily > > > 47 6 * * 7 root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report > > > /etc/cron.weekly > > > 52 6 1 * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report > > > /etc/cron.monthly > > > > > > > > > why is the daily cron running at 7:30am? > > > > What time did you start up the machine? The cron jobs will run through > > anacron shortly after startup if they haven't been run in a certain time > > period. Seeing as how my computer is always shutdown at 4:25am, my daily > > cronjobs always run shortly after I start up. If I started up the machine > > at 7:25, they'd run at about 7:30. > > Another thought... did you use the "crontab -e" command to make the > change to the crontab file? excuse my ignorance. for some reason, this is stuff that just doesn't get stored into my long term memory...
from the top of /etc/crontab: # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. maybe i forgot to restart cron (is that necessary)? i thought i did. anyhow, i *definitely* restarted it just now and added another daily system cron to print out date into /etc/cron.diagnostic. i've been waking up very early lately. i'll see what happens and report tomorrow morning... pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech