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Re: [cobalt-users] Cron.daily query AGAIN

> >> crontab -l does not show when the contents of cron.daily are run. It
just
> >> shows some other programs like chkrootkit to run daiily.
> >>
> >> There is a folder called cron.daily with a number of items in it
including
> >> my raqbackup.  The problem is that it seems to run quite late . I want
to
> >> change it so please how do I check and change
>
> Reverend
> The simple answer you were asking is when does the cron.daily run, it is 4
> AM or at least it is on our Raq 4's and our old Raq 3's. If you are having
> some issues with Raqbackup running and clogging things up, we set up a
> completely new cron job for it, we created a cron.midnight and set the
cron
> to run daily at midnight. We then mv'd the raqbackup file over to that
> directory. We also created a separate cron for our awstats to run at 8 AM.
> By doing this we noticed a great improvement on our CPU use.


If you edit the /etc/crontab file, you can change the time it runs. I
normally have all mine start at 1:00 AM

pico -w /etc/crontab
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart


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