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I'm trying to get cron.daily to run just after midnight with the line below

2 0 * * * * ... (the rest is the standard verbiage)

However it is run at 07:36 and claims to be run by anacron (I don't necessarily believe that) What is the scoop, Oh yeah, my system is in the PST8PDT timexome.

Stephen Woods
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  • Afaik, `cron.daily` is managed by *Ana*cron – there's no Anacron on the system in which case it falls back to Cron. You can also see that in your `crontab` file where it only runs the `cron.daily` directory if `/usr/sbin/anacron` doesn't exist. So you're likely looking in the wrong place. – David Foerster Jan 14 '17 at 19:58
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    Take a look at the 2nd answer in [this](http://askubuntu.com/questions/36971/at-what-time-does-cron-execute-daily-scripts) question. – gsxruk Jan 14 '17 at 20:19
  • Perfect, I shouls have looked at the verbage because that was where the clue was, – Stephen Woods Jan 15 '17 at 18:35

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So the problem was in fact that anacron was running the jobs, not cron. Anacron, which is installed on desktop machines, but NOT on servers by default (/etc/cron.d/anacron) runs the daily jobs at 0730.

Stephen Woods
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