On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Monday 08 August 2005 7:13 pm, Lucky Leavell wrote:
OS: SuSE 9.3 Pro
I found my cron.daily files were running at all sorts of times of day in 9.3 (several systems) and finally found a message posted earlier this year that told how to fix it by removing the /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily file at the time you wanted it to run - one minute. I set mine to run at 4:00 AM (0800 UTC) and it did so the first day but then ran at 0415 the second day, 0430 the third, etc.
What causes this creep? Am I going to have to run a cron.weekly job to reset cron.daily?
It's a known problem. Check the archives for a solution.
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-May/1097.html OK, I did that and reset the time to run at 3AM (0700 UTC) but now I find cron.daily has not run since.!?
Do I need to restart cron or what? Thank you, Lucky Leavell