[arch-general] Best way to adjust cron.daily or updatedb execution time? (root's crontab?)

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 03:26:40PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
> 
>   What is the best way to set the cron.daily items to run at 3 am.
> Currently they run at 3 pm which is a pain. I have checked the
> cron.daily entries and the other /etc/cron.x directories, but I
> can't find a time setting anywhere. I have checked man crond and
> crontab, but I didn't find a reference to setting the execution time
> globally for cron.daily stuff. I have added an entry to root's
> crontab:
> 
> 0  3  *  *  *  /root/cron/cron-daily
> 
>   Is this where this needs to go?

`man 5 anacrontab`.

> 
> -- 
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.