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Originally Posted by talin i want to change what time the daily/weekly/monthly maintenance scripts run. basically, i want them to run when my computer is more likely to be awake. is this possible? |
If your computer is not awake when the daily/weekly/monthly cron scripts are supposed to run, then they will not run at that precise time (obviously). However, there is no need to force them to run, as they'll simply run when your computer does awaken.
If you check your Console application, you can see that these scripts run when they're supposed to automatically, without you having to run them manually. For example, my computer sleeps all night, so the scripts don't get run at 3am (or whenever they're set to run). Checking Console, under /var/logs, under "daily.out" (and likewise, "weekly.out" and "monthly.out"),I can see that the "daily" script ran at 9:33am this morning -- precisely the time I woke my computer up this morning. Looking backward in the log, I can see that the daily script ran
every day at some point soon after I awoke the computer that day.
There is no need to run these scripts manually, because then you'd be running them twice: once automatically when the system awakes, then again when you force it to run.