Backups not in Cron

scasey · 10-27-2017, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TenTenths

You'll actually find that they are executed in alphabetical order and not concurrently.

I knew that...sorry I was misleading. Thank you for clarifying. I should have said something like "at about the same time..."
I was trying to speak to the OPs observation that the tar files timestamps were "about the same time" as the makewhatis.cron execution, which led me to suspect that it was another /etc/cron.daily task.

scasey · 10-28-2017, 06:56 PM

I just yesterday had occasion to identify the script/cron job creating a file every day. It was a thing I set up many, many years ago and I could not remember which script it was. Since it was a daily job, I just did what I'd suggested here earlier

Code:

grep filename /etc/cron.daily/*

and it popped right out!