Cron question

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Jun 16 2004  7:14 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> I have recently installed Gentoo, and before that I was using Debian.  I
> don't know which Cron daemon comes standard with Debian but in Gentoo I
> chose VixiCron.  Aparently, Debian's Cron daemon fired off at about 6:25
> A.M. local time for daily events.  Aparently, Gentoo's fires at about 3:00
> A.M. local time.  My question is this.  What determines at what time of day
> Cron will fire?

At least on my Debian system, don't know about gentu, the cron.{daily
hourly monthly weekly} scripts are run from /etc/crontab. This file has
an extra field where a user name may be put as the user to run as. At
least here root's crontab is empty. The entries you're looking for
should be in one of these places.

HTH

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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