[vox-tech] cron - not at a different time

[Ken Bloom]

On 2004.03.03 04:38, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> cron is running sometime around 7:30am:
> 
>  8646 ?        SN     0:00 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
>  8651 ?        SN     0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/checksecurity
>  8678 ?        SN     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/checksecurity
>  8714 ?        SN     0:00 /bin/sh /usr/share/checksecurity/check-setuid
>  8724 ?        RN     0:06 find / /boot /var /usr/local /home /data -xdev
> ( -fal
>  8725 ?        SN     0:00 sort
>  8733 ?        R      0:00 xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8
> p@satan$ date
> Wed Mar 03  7:37 AM
> 
> 
> yet, i think it should at 4:25am if i have my fields correct:
> 
> 
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> 
> 17 * * * * root  run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
> 25 4 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
> /etc/cron.daily
> 47 6 * * 7 root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
> /etc/cron.weekly
> 52 6 1 * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
> /etc/cron.monthly
> 
> 
> why is the daily cron running at 7:30am?

What time did you start up the machine? The cron jobs will run through  
anacron shortly after startup if they haven't been run in a certain time  
period. Seeing as how my computer is always shutdown at 4:25am, my daily  
cronjobs always run shortly after I start up. If I started up the machine  
at 7:25, they'd run at about 7:30.

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