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

[David C. Rankin]

On 02/22/2012 03:44 PM, rara8avis at aol.com wrote:
> Try two digit numbers: 00 03 * * * and is your directory /etc/cron-daily or
> /etc/cron.daily?
> 

  it's dcron, and on my box the updatedb file is in cron.daily:

17:48 providence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> l /etc/cron.daily/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 21 09:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 12288 Feb 22 15:13 ..
-rwxr--r--   1 root root    51 Sep 28 01:01 logrotate
-rwxr--r--   1 root root   807 Mar  8  2010 man-db
-rwxr--r--   1 root root   115 Feb  8 07:20 pkgfile
-rwxr--r--   1 root root    96 Dec  3 19:14 shadow
-rwxr--r--   1 root root   654 Mar 26  2010 updatedb

  The root crontab file I have has the following ID definitions:

<quote>
# root crontab
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! USE crontab -e INSTEAD

# man 1 crontab for acceptable formats:
#    <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <tags and command>
#    <@freq> <tags and command>

# SYSTEM DAILY/WEEKLY/... FOLDERS
@hourly         ID=sys-hourly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
@daily          ID=sys-daily    /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
@weekly         ID=sys-weekly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly        ID=sys-monthly  /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.monthly

# DCR specific root crontabs from '/root/cron/<filename>
0  5  1  *  *  /root/cron/cron-monthly
0  3  *  *  *  /root/cron/cron-daily
</quote>

  I haven't messed with the file other than to add the last two lines. Do I need
to change the ID lines as well?

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