puzzled about cron and anacron
I am setting up a cron job to do a daily backup of files on disk. I have
put a call to
the backup program in /etc/cron.daily and it does run daily, but not at
the time that
I would like it to run. The puzzle is that /etc/crontab specifies that
the jobs in /etc/cron.daily should be run starting at 6:25 AM local
time, but when I look at the
logs, they are being run starting at 7:35 AM. I really want my job run
earlier (I'm an
early riser). I like to run the backup at about 4 AM. Changing the
setting in /etc/crontab has no effect on when the job actually runs (as
I expected because the job
was actually being run at 7:35) It appears that something else is
actually controlling when daily cron jobs run, but I can't find any
config file that mentions 7:35 AM. I leave my computer on overnight just
so I can have this job done, but there are indications in the log that
seem, to my untrained eye, to be anacron restarting cron jobs every
morning --- why? and how does it arrive at 7:35? The README.Debian
indicates the anacron is absolutely "transparent". Is there something
else that restarts anacron?
The computer is running plain vanilla desktop Lenny, installed a couple
of weeks ago.
Suggestions?
TIA
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