Op maandag 10 april 2006 17:01, schreef Joachim Schrod:
Updating it to the current time can be done with touch. What we are looking for is an easy method to set it to some arbitrary timestamp, in the past or in the future. The ctime of the file cited above is the time when the jobs in /etc/cron.daily are run. Some people, who don't turn their systems off, want these jobs to be run in the night. For that, they need to change the ctime of that file, let's say to 04:45 or something like that. touch won't work here. The only known way to do that is by typing:
$ at 04:43
> rm /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily > <EOF>
(where <EOF> is typically Ctrl-D). Then that file will be (re-)created by the cron job that starts at 04:45. We are looking for a method that does the above more easily and can be explained more easily to newbies.
Have a look here: http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Schedule_cron_daily -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless