On 2013-03-29, Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com wrote:
Much thanks to all for the replies. I now understand the logic of what is= =20 happening (I'm a two CentOS server, three Fedora desk/laptop person,=20 myself; I do SQL and other things for food, not sysadmin). Having=20 acclimated to precise delivery of sysadmin-related reports=20 (logwatch, rkhunter, etc) showing timestamps of 4am (or thereabouts), I=20 was caught by surprise after making a necessary move from CentOS 5 to=20 CentOS 6, with what appeared to be erratic delivery of=20 cron.daily-/cron.weekly-driven sysadmin reporting.
If you prefer this style, you can remove anacron. If you do that, you may wish to install the cronie-noanacron package to restore the running of periodic jobs out of the daily/weekly/monthly directories.
--keith