how do you control cron jobs in gentoo?

josh

I have my crons set to run at 4 in the morning. Lowest traffic time. it's a web server. But they seem to default midnight. Or rather, they seem to have been set to default to midnight, and when I tried to change them to 4am, they run at midnight and 4. How do I change this? When I run 'crontab -e' everything looks good to have them run at 4, but they still run at both times.
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taskara · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject:

u could try webmin to monitor and manage them?

emerge webmin

/etc/init.c/webmin start

mozilla localhost:10000
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zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

That's why I hate using the crontab utility - it seems to copy crontabs into all sorts of places.

Check ALL the crontabs on your system to be sure.

/etc/crontab
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/

josh · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 6:27 am Post subject:

great, thanks guys! I thought that by typing "crontab /etc/crontab" that would install the crontab from taht file (this is what it says to do in the install -- i use dcron btw). So instead of doing that, I set my own how I wanted it. But I just removed the /etc/crontab file and use my root crontab now. thanks again
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