On 03/11/2015 08:17 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just configured SquidAnalyzer, a nifty little network statistics tool > that I'm using mainly in school networks to monitor network usage. > > I want to run the '/usr/bin/squid-analyzer' script once a day. I took a > peek in /etc/cron.daily, and the package already installed an > /etc/cron.daily/0squidanalyzer script. > > I wanted to know at what time CentOS ran the cron.daily scripts, so I > typed crontab -l, but there was only "no cronjobs defined for root". > > Here's how things look on a public Slackware64 14.0 server I administrate: > > # crontab -l > ... > # Run hourly cron jobs at 47 minutes after the hour: > 47 * * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 1> /dev/null > # > # Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day: > 40 4 * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null > # > # Run weekly cron jobs at 4:30 on the first day of the week: > 30 4 * * 0 /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 1> /dev/null > # > # Run monthly cron jobs at 4:20 on the first day of the month: > 20 4 1 * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 1> /dev/null > > How is this handled on CentOS 7? > > Cheers, > > Niki In CentOS 5 this is configured in /etc/crontab >From CentOS 6 onward, cron.hourly comes out of /etc/cron.d/0hourly and the rest are configured in /etc/anacrontab -Thomas