On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been running an offsite network-hog backup script > once a week, which I foolishly put in /etc/cron.weekly. > > Further scrutiny reveals that anacron runs cron.weekly > in the wee hours of Monday morning; since this script > may need a day to send data over a low bandwidth ADSL > uplink, this is not a good thing to continue through > the workday monday. Does anyone know why anacron is > configured this way, or where to change it? > > If your system is configure similar to mine then here is where things are configured: [lbrigman@area51 ~]$ cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
