Hi Karel
> The answer to both of these questions is the /etc/crontab file. You are
> correct, cron does check every minute to see if there's something to run
> in the various crontabs (user and system). /etc/crontab, the system file
> (as it were), indicates which time of day/month/etc to run each of the
> "parts" in the various cron.X directories. Mine's set to 4:00am for the
> cron.daily contents. YMMV, as always.
>
Got it! At last!! I couldn't find any info on the format of the crontab
file but a colleague of mind has passed this on from Novell's docs.
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
Therefore my cron.daily is also set to run at 04:02 each day. Will let
you know if it works tonight...
Thanks for all your help, Brian
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