/etc/cron.daily not running

Mon Feb 23 20:24:14 UTC 2009

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:43 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote:

> Also, why does my ZZZ_cron_daily_test script run at the top and not
> the bottom even though it's sorted properly in a directory listing?!

Sound like you have the LC_COLLATE environment variable set.  cron uses
the standard collation order e.g. LC_COLLATE=C.  This sorts in strict
ASCII order.  With internationalization the collation order gets more
complicated.  If LC_COLLATE is set to en_US, the upper and lowercase
alphabetic characters get sorted as 'a A b B ...' instead of 'A B .. a
b ..'. 
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