cron running at odd times?

[Knute Johnson]

On 2/19/2012 8:53 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> 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?
>

More searching through the logs, I ran aptitude at that second and my 
apache web server stopped at that exact time too.

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Knute Johnson