cron question

[Duane Attaway]

I'm using dcron.  I suspect redhat uses something similar.

Check /etc/crontab, the first at periodic intervals would trigger the cron 
script file in /usr/sbin.  In the script for dcron, it does a checks for 
which /etc/cron.[daily|hourly|monthly|weekly] directory to run.  Note the 
ctime argument in the /usr/sbin/run-crons script.  You might want to 
change the 8 to another number representing the hour of the day.
 
Your /etc/crontab should look something like:

       # MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK   COMMAND
       */15 * * * /usr/sbin/run-crons <--this goes through the others
       0 0 * * * rm -f /var/cron/lastrun/cron.daily <--cleans up

Crontab is modeled after those old light timers with moveable tabs that 
slide out to trigger the toggle switch.  Crond should detect changes in 
your file automatically.

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Does anyone know where, in RedHat, the cron deamon gets the time of day to
> run cron.daily scripts?  Mine seems to be running at 8:00 AM, which is not a
> particularly good time.
> 
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