so dig this, i was all hyped up to finally get my crontab issue working properlly, and when i do, it runs twice!
Observe:

#MP3 alarm clock @ 5am
0 5 * * 1-5 /etc/cron.daily/mp3_alarm

is the crontab entry, and the script is here:

#!/bin/sh
mplayer -really-quiet -shuffle -playlist /mnt/fat32/Albums/all.m3u

this is basically my crontab stuff for only user. root does not have this same script. which i why i dont understand why this runs twice! 0_o

it runs once at 4:48 am and another time at 5 am (when its supposed to).any ideas on whats causing this would be greatly appreciated. cause this is annoying as hell to know that i still have an extra 12 mins of sleeping before i had to get up.

oh yeah, theres only one instance of crond running.

By default root has a job that runs all scripts on /etc/cron.daily at 4 40
Login as root, and type: crontab -l

Edit: Forgot to say, to solve it, just put your script somewhere else
And also, it must be taking some minutes to start because logrotate and slocate (actually, updatedb) are also inside /etc/cron.daily and they seems to be executing before yours.

excellent. i didnt think of something so simple. we'll see how this works out, if all goes well, ill be able to sleep at night (pun intended).

as far as my script taking sometime to start up. last i checked, it starts right up. :-/

but, again, thanks for the input, it seems to make sense to me, if this will not work, ill post again @ 5:01 am -_-