cron.hourly/daily/weekly/etc. in rawhide

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 02/18/2009 01:26 AM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:00 +0100, Marcela Maslanova wrote:
>
>   
>> The cron daemon is running every hour anacron, which checks whether run 
>> cron.{daily,weekly,...} now or not. The setting is stored in 
>> /etc/anacrontab where is also possible create random delay. The jobs 
>> should be executed as before for usual user on desktop.
>>
>> I know on servers people often don't use anacron at all because they 
>> want to run daily jobs in some time range. This could be now also set in 
>> anacrontab. This is discussed here #481775.
>>     
>
> Ok, I knew and understood anacron is for running cron jobs that missed
> their scheduling for various reasons?  I only asked about anacrontab
> because that is the only setting config file I could find that was close
> enough to configuring crontab.
>
> Soooo, I guess what I am trying to ask, is if I want my cron.daily to
> run at 3:25 every morning, what/where is the file that I set that for?
> Because currently my cron.daily (after a fresh install from few days
> ago) runs at 4:xxam and I don't know what is making it run at that time
> very morning like it used to be.
>   
It seems that /etc/anacrontab is the new config file for botn cron and 
anacron. Quite confusing, to be honest, I would have expected at least 
the other way around (have anacron read from /etc/crontab ). But then 
again, maybe I am wrong...