rkhunter daily cron

[John Horne]

On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 22:07 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On 09/10/11 21:11, John Horne wrote:
> <snipped>
> 
> >> Should I just replace the script with my own cronjob times?
> >> as per some of the examples.
> >>
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you installed the rkhunter RPM package (either via yum or by
> > downloading it) then I would just use what is supplied with the package.
> > The supplied cronjob is fine, why change it? The fact that it is a
> > script in cron.daily is no problem.
> >
> 
> If I knew what time in x.00 ir ran,
> I would leave it alone.
> But I havn't figured what time cron.daily runs.
>
Take a look at /etc/anacrontab and the man pages for crond, anacron and
anacrontab. Basically, at least as far as I am aware, anacron does not
necessarily start jobs at a particular time like cron, but will start
them within a specified time period.



John.

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