Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Hello,
I thought I read on this list how to do this, but I can not seem to find it in the archives. I already have the time set for daily tasks and it works well. The machine has been doing things with 10.3 really well, but when I upgrade this machine to OpenSUSE 11.0, it wants to do this Monday mornings. That is when I finished the update/upgrade. I have tried to remove the cron.weekly on friday evening at 23:45, but the file is recreated but the weekly cronjob still runs on Monday morning at about 6:00 AM MDT. This really interfeers with work. I really need this task to be run Saturday Morning at 12:15 AM. I have 5 TB drives and 4 512 GB drives. It takes the task a long time to complete. How do I force the weekly job to run at the time I want?
As user root "crontab -e". Then simply set the options for that. See "man 5 crontab" for details. Fields are listed from left to right: minutes hours days_of_month month day_of_week command In your case you probably want: 15 12 * * 7 /path/to/command/to/execute Results will be mailed as usual to root. I've given up using /etc/cron.daily for time-critical jobs. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org