cron.hourly/daily/weekly/etc. in rawhide

[Mike Chambers]

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 01:53 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 02/18/2009 01:26 AM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:00 +0100, Marcela Maslanova wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> The cron daemon is running every hour anacron, which checks whether run 
> >> cron.{daily,weekly,...} now or not. The setting is stored in 
> >> /etc/anacrontab where is also possible create random delay. The jobs 
> >> should be executed as before for usual user on desktop.
> >>
> >> I know on servers people often don't use anacron at all because they 
> >> want to run daily jobs in some time range. This could be now also set in 
> >> anacrontab. This is discussed here #481775.
> >>     
> >
> > Ok, I knew and understood anacron is for running cron jobs that missed
> > their scheduling for various reasons?  I only asked about anacrontab
> > because that is the only setting config file I could find that was close
> > enough to configuring crontab.
> >
> > Soooo, I guess what I am trying to ask, is if I want my cron.daily to
> > run at 3:25 every morning, what/where is the file that I set that for?
> > Because currently my cron.daily (after a fresh install from few days
> > ago) runs at 4:xxam and I don't know what is making it run at that time
> > very morning like it used to be.
> >   
> It seems that /etc/anacrontab is the new config file for botn cron and 
> anacron. Quite confusing, to be honest, I would have expected at least 
> the other way around (have anacron read from /etc/crontab ). But then 
> again, maybe I am wrong...

I also see /etc/cron.d dir and wonder if putting in a file, like 0hourly
is in there currently, and setting it that way for specific times/dates?

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Mike Chambers
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