I want the cron.daiy jobs to run earlier in the morning than they do by default. I used to do this by editing the time in /etc/cron.d/anacron, but that no longer works; nor does changing the time in the cron.daily line of /etc/crontab. How is this controlled now? Thanks

Welcome to the systemd snake pit. There will be an undocumented command somewhere to change it, but why would you want to override systemd's defaults, which are perfect for every computer and every usage pattern?

Controlling the time of anacron's cron.daily in raspbian buster?

Feb 16, 2020 41 Replies

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Joe Beanfish 6 years ago

The .service files aren't config files. It's just that some packagers plunk hard-coded settings into the .service file when they should make them configurable. e.g. redhat/centos hardcode "PrivateTmp=true" into the .service file for apache httpd.

So instead of

[Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mydaemon -s 03:00:00 PrivateTmp=true

It should be

[Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/mydaemon ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mydaemon -s $STARTTIME PrivateTmp=$USEPRIVATETMP

Then all tweakable settings go in /etc/sysconfig/mydaemon instead of the .service file. (or /etc/default or whatever)

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Adam Funk 6 years ago

Well, I see what you mean, but if it has variables in it that I need to change to get the service to run at a different time or with different options, then it looks, walks, & quacks ike a config file to me!

;-)

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