On 2020-02-19, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 19/02/2020 16:04, Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2020-02-18, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 15:16:09 +0000, 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?
>>>
>>> Look at "man 8 cron" to see how crond is run, including under systemd.
>>> These days crond only handles the jobs that run more frequently than
>>> daily as well as those with their own run schedule, i.e those the run
>>> several times a day or to a more complex run schedule. It also has useful
>>> references to other manpages.
>>>
>>> For jobs that run daily, weekly or monthly, see at "man 8 anacron" for
>>> details of the controlling daemon, anacron, and "man anacrontab" to see
>>> how to configure anacron, including changing the time of day these jobs
>>> will be run at.
>>
>> I can't find anything there on how to change the start time each day;
>> man 8 anacron does say this:
>>
>>    DEBIAN-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION
>>    On Debian-based systems, anacron will be activated hourly every day
>>    from 07:30 local time to 23:30 local time through cron job (on
>>    non-systemd systems where cron is installed and enabled) or systemd
>>    timer (on systemd-based systems).  On activation, anacron will check
>>    if it missed some jobs. If yes, it will start those jobs after a
>>    short period of time.
>>
>> But I don't see how to change the 07:30 start.  I made the following
>> change in /etc/cron.d/anacron yesterday
>>
>> #30 7-23 * * *   root [ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && if [ ! -d
/run/systemd/system ]; then /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null; fi
>> 30 5-23 * * *   root [ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && if [ ! -d
/run/systemd/system ]; then /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null; fi
>>
>> but it still ran at 07:30.
>>
>>
> maybe you need to restart a daemon, or, for safety, reboot?

Good idea!  I'll see what happens tomorrow morning.


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