From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 29 2:46: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1632D37B416 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 02:45:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68767 invoked by uid 100); 29 Jan 2002 10:45:40 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15446.32084.521972.879696@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:45:40 -0600 To: Beech Rintoul Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anything wrong with changing the time cron.daily runs? In-Reply-To: <80685447@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-RC-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Beech Rintoul types: > On Sunday 27 January 2002 08:57 pm, Donald Burr of Borg wrote: > > Is there anything wrong with changing the time that > > daily/weekly/monthly maintenance runs to, say, around noon or 1pm in the > > afternoon? Will this be bad for the FreeBSD system in any way, shape or > > form? > No problem at all. Set it to run any time you like. Not quite. Setting it to any time between 1 and 2 am - inclusive - is a bad idea if you live in a time zone that practices daylight savings time. At least in the US, that's when the switch happens, which can lead to things being run twice, or not running at all. If other time zones switch at a different time, it'll be different. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message