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from: ADAM FUNK
date: 2020-02-17 10:36:00
subject: Re: Controlling the time

On 2020-02-16, Roger Bell_West wrote:

> On 2020-02-16, Adam Funk wrote:
>>I want the cron.daiy jobs to run earlier in the morning than they do
>>by default.  I used to do this by editing the time in
>>/etc/cron.d/anacron, but that no longer works; nor does changing the
>>time in the cron.daily line of /etc/crontab.  How is this controlled
>>now?
>
> Welcome to the systemd snake pit. There will be an undocumented
> command somewhere to change it, but why would you want to override
> systemd's defaults, which are perfect for every computer and every
> usage pattern?

Ha!  In all fairness, I haven't had any other trouble from the switch
to systemd (with Raspbian on the Pi or Ubuntu on other machines), and
it was used in stretch.


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