From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mxsf13.cluster1.charter.net ([209.225.28.213]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BakxV-0002A2-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:40:49 -0400 Received: from mxip10.cluster1.charter.net (mxip10a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.140]) by mxsf13.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5H0WKW0042995 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:32:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pc-24-151-13-200.newt1.ct.charter.com (HELO h14me.homelinux.net) (24.151.13.200) by mxip10.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 16 Jun 2004 20:32:20 -0400 Received: from h14me.homelinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5H0WK32003356; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:32:20 -0400 Received: (from alex_snow@localhost) by h14me.homelinux.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5H0WK5I003355; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:32:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:32:19 -0400 From: Alex Snow To: Jayson Smith , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040617003219.GC3333@gmx.net> References: <001101c453f7$b9a45a40$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; x-action=pgp-signed; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001101c453f7$b9a45a40$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Cc: Subject: Re: Cron question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:40:49 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you're talking about the scripts in /etc/cron.daily on my slackware system that's controled by a line in root's crontab. do crontab -e as root to edit it. On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:14:50PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote: > Hi, > I have recently installed Gentoo, and before that I was using Debian. I > don't know which Cron daemon comes standard with Debian but in Gentoo I > chose VixiCron. Aparently, Debian's Cron daemon fired off at about 6:25 > A.M. local time for daily events. Aparently, Gentoo's fires at about 3:00 > A.M. local time. My question is this. What determines at what time of day > Cron will fire? > Jayson. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it. -- Paul Vixie, vixie-cron 3.0.1 installation notes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0OaT9XVrM3ri110RAkMiAKCAZMMI2wtrVojmxoZAF8ibLlRyKQCeI7qN RqOjZpZ+IMAuhf7WrR+6XqU= =IbkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----