[lug] Crontab

[Warren Sanders]

That was it George!
Thanks a bunch.

Sexton, George wrote:
> Did you restart the cron daemon after you changed the time zone?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Warren Sanders
> Sent: 12 September, 2002 11:24 AM
> To: Boulder Linux User's Group
> Subject: [lug] Crontab
> 
> 
> I have this crontab line '01 23 * * *
> /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --links...'
> and it was running at 5:01 PM every day.
> 
> I was wondering if my problem here was due to one of these situations:
> 1. I added the user crontab entry as root using 'crontab -e' without the -u
> root
> 2. I discovered my time zone info was set to UTC and just adjusted to MDT
> the
> other day but it made no difference (still ran at 5:01 PM).  Not sure if UTC
> was
> current when the crontab was created.
> 
> Thinking it might be the time zone crazyness, I modified it to:
> '00 23 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/rsync -av...' using 'crontab -u root -e' this time.
> I
> shall find out this evening... or I guess I could speed the clock up I
> suppose.
> 
> Any thoughts or similar experience?
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Warren Sanders
> http://MontanaLinux.Org
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