On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 17:40, James Kosin wrote: > James Kosin wrote: > > <<-- snip -->> > > | Ooops, > | ~ William was correct, I just checked it out. It was an assumption on > | my part. > | ~ The problem is everything in cron.daily gets run at 4:00am always. > | To get it to run at a different time, you need to use the Task > | Scheduler to add an entry for root to run '/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron' at > | the appropriate time(s) you want. Or you can use 'crontab -u root' to > | edit by hand and add an entry. I prefer the Task Scheduler approach. > More information just in: > ~ You can also edit /etc/crontab and change the 4 to something more > useful to you. Ok, thanks but I have done most of this already, all my cron jobs run around 19.00, still it was worth a shot trying to get another "toy" to work.. > ~ Also, lookup more information about editing the file using 'man 5 > crontab'... Thanks that is very handy to know about "man 5" etc, still lots to learn :) Cheers and thanks all who replied, Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.7 KDE-Redhat-3.2.3 Registered Linux user number 342953
