From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 23:45:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0002C1538F for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:45:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11SrGr-0001j9-00; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 01:25:29 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11SrGp-00030L-00; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 01:25:27 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 01:25:27 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jamie Norwood Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird cron actions Message-ID: <19990920012527.A11363@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19990919171142.A35668@mushhaven.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990919171142.A35668@mushhaven.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jamie Norwood wrote: > Daily, I get a script running way early: > > I also note the security scripts run at 7pm rather than midnight? Looks like a timezone thing to me. Perhaps cron is running in the wrong timezone, or something? What timezone is your system set up to be (i.e., what is /etc/localtime), and do you override this anywhere by setting the TZ variable, or anything like that? -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message