cron running at odd times?

[Knute Johnson]

On 2/19/2012 7:14 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Knute Johnson<ubuntu at knutejohnson.com>  wrote:
>> Anybody have any idea why my one of my cron.daily scripts would get run an
>> extra time 10+ hours late?  I did notice that it missed one run of this
>> script a few days ago.
>
> Based on what I have read about cron, you should edit your
> user-specific cron entries with the crontab command.
>
> That is, you may open a terminal as root and type
>
> crontab
>
> there you may enter your cron entries.
>
>

This is the system /etc/cron.daily folder.  You can't put a script in 
there that you want run as root every day?

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Knute Johnson