LordX wrote:
>
> I set up some new task in my cron.daily directory, but seems that it
> does not work?
> I guess the problem is that I shutdown the computer every night at about
> 22:30, this coz my cron.daily has no chance to run. Am I right? If I am
> right, when does the cron.daily run? Can I change the schedule?
> I know I can get the same effect by using cron.hourly with some trick,
> but I just want to know how to do this use cron.daily.
> Thanks.
Either use anacron (which is like cron, but executes at sloppy
intervals, instead of fixed times) and read man anacron, or look at
/etc/crontab together with crontab(5). Another way is to use one of the
gui frontends to cron (e.g. kcrontab).
Marc
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