On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 03:40:41PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:04:18 EDT Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes > > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. > > Looking at the process list, I see the above-referenced come and go. > > I didn't want this, and it's not apparent to me how to deal with it. > > > > How do I find out where this is invoked, so I can get rid of it? > > It used to be in a root crontab, where you could delay it to say 3 am. > But I've no clue where its at in the later versions since systemd took > over.
It's in cron.daily. unicorn:~$ ls /etc/cron.daily/ apt-compat* dpkg* man-db* popularity-contest* aptitude* google-chrome@ mlocate* spamassassin* calendar* logrotate* ntp* sysstat* So, you could change when the cron.daily job runs, but you can't easily postpone just one part of cron.daily. unicorn:~$ grep daily /etc/crontab 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) I don't remember whether I moved that to 06:25 myself, or what. But anyway, that's where you would change it.
