On 11/27/05 5:55 PM, "Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@ntm.org> wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to change the time that the scripts in cron.daily are run.
Currently they're processed right around 2 AM, 2:05 I think. This seems to be the default for 9.3.
For various reasons, I need some of them to run between 12:30 and 1 AM. You need to delete /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily just before you want the daily cron scripts to run (and then AFAIU) as long as your computer is always on, it will continue to run at those times. I put /bin/rm /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily in roots crontab to do it, you could do it at 12.25 I believe and it would get run at 12:30. Check
Ian Marlier wrote: the archives, there was a thread regarding this back in April 2005
That was very helpful, Joe. Thank you. - Ian