From: Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> > Per the subject line, what controls the time of the running of scripts > located in the /etc/cron.[daily|weekly|hourly] directories? > > Specifically with CentOS 6.* I've noticed that scripts in /etc/cron.daily > and /etc/cron.weekly run at different times of the day, or on different > days. In my experience on other rpm-based distributions, cron daily and > weekly scripts run at 4am; those that are run weekly run at 4am on Sunday > morning. Seems like there is some info in: man anacrontab JD