On 07/02/15 22:19, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 23:45:38 +1000 > Philip Rhoades wrote: > >> and there is nothing in crontab with a 3:25am on it . . what is going >> on? > You have no doubt encountered the wonders of anacron, which, instead of running > things when you want them run, runs them at some random time. > > You used to be able to just remove anacron from your system, but now > it has been improved so much that it is tightly integrated. > > You have to move everything from /etc/anacrontab to /etc/crontab > (and reformat it properly since they aren't the same syntax), then > to really make sure you drive a stake through its heart, cat /dev/null > to each of /etc/cron.d/0hourly /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron /etc/anacrontab > (and repeat following every update in case an update reinstalls them :-). Can't you just set all the delay parameters to 0? -- Sorta what I want to say when folks habitually complain about Fedora - https://youtu.be/ZArl8fTfub4 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
