From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 19:18: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05391155F4 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:18:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01700; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:20:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199909200220.WAA01700@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Weird cron actions In-Reply-To: <19990919171142.A35668@mushhaven.net> from Jamie Norwood at "Sep 19, 1999 05:11:42 pm" To: mistwolf@mushhaven.net (Jamie Norwood) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:20:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jamie Norwood wrote, > Daily, I get a script running way early: > > >From root Sun Sep 19 16:57:01 1999 > From: root (Cron Daemon) > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 16:57:01 -0700 (PDT) > ^^^^^^^^ > To: mistwolf > Subject: Cron $HOME/bin/tartoday.sh >> /dev/null > > The crontab entry fr that is: > > 57 23 * * * $HOME/bin/tartoday.sh >> /dev/null > > I also note the security scripts run at 7pm rather than midnight? You mean it's running at 7 PM rather than 2 AM, right? > Any ideas? > > Jamie Idea: 16:57:01 -0700 (PDT) = 23:57:01 (UTC) 7:00:00 PM 19:00:00 -0700 (PDT) = 02:00:00 (UTC) It looks like your machine is a bit confused about whether it is running with system clock at local time or UTC. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message