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

[rara8avis at aol.com]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 05:53:32PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> 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.
You say you have /etc/cron.daily but your last two lines call cron-daily

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