[PLUG] cron.weekly, early monday morning?
Larry Brigman
larry.brigman at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 17:54:20 UTC 2015
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>
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 at 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
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