cron running at odd times?

[Knute Johnson]

On 2/20/2012 4:29 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2012-02-20, 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?
>
> Is it possible the computer was off during the usual cron.daily time
> and anacron ran it later?
>
>

It's on a server, it never gets shut off.

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Knute Johnson