On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: <snip> >> Does the system have to be one at some time during the night to run the >> daily crons? > > Yes. See /etc/crontab There is another service you can run, if the box is not powered on at the time the task is scheduled: anacron Here's the description: "Run cron jobs that were left out due to downtime"