Adam Funk  writes:
> On 2020-02-20, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> You stopped reading too early:
> ...
>> Start with ‘man systemd.timer’ for the syntax & meaning of the timer
>> file, and look for ‘Overriding vendor settings’ in ‘man
systemd.unit’
>> for how to modify its behavior.
>
> Thanks --- I think I'm getting closer, but not successful yet.  I
> found a symlink from
> /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/anacron.timer to
> /lib/systemd/system/anacron.timer, deleted it, copied the linked file
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^

I have no idea why you would do that.

> into the etc location, and edited the relevant-looking line as
> follows:
>
> #OnCalendar=*-*-* 07..23:30
> OnCalendar=*-*-* 05..23:30
>
> Then I used touch to set the timestamp on
> /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily back a few hours.
>
> And cron.daily got run at 07:30 again this morning.  Any more
> suggestions?  I'd be grateful.

You will probably need to run ‘systemctl daemon-reload’, but you’ll need
to undo the random file deletion above first.

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