Bug 138551

Summary: cron.daily runs at normal office working hours
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 4   
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Description Stefan Hundhammer 2005-12-14 14:12:40 UTC
Figuring out what on earth slows my machine down every afternoon, I found that we run cron.daily at the most unreasonable of times: At 14:40.

From /usr/lib/cron/run-crons:

    ...
    test -e $SPOOL/$BASE && {
        case $BASE in
          cron.hourly)  TIME="-cmin  +60 -or -cmin  60" ;;
          cron.daily)   TIME="-cmin +1440 -or -cmin 1440"  ;;
          ...

I don't mind those cron jobs running in the middle of the night when I am away from my computer. Of course when the machine does not run at that time, there must be a fallback time - but running it at 14:40 every day for everybody does not make sense.

Please move it to, say, 3:00 in the night or some other time then the machine is idle anyway.
Comment 1 Mads Martin Joergensen 2005-12-14 14:18:05 UTC
1440 has nothing to do with the time it runs. It just keeps running 24 hours after the last time it ran.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114761 ***