Daily Quarantine Report Timing
Posted: 04 Nov 2024 15:21
I have some users requesting that their quarantine reports be sent first thing in the morning. The anacron daemon had started sending them at 11AM recently.
I checked that the system time was correct.
I had modified /etc/anarontab to the following:
I thought this would have the daily reports sent between 3AM and 6:45AM. Instead todays reports came just after 8AM.
I thought of moving /etc/cron.daily/mailwatch to a regular cron job, but I think he next update would put it back resulting in 2 copies of reports being sent.
Is there any other underlying process for sending the reports that I'm missing? Seem pretty standard linux stuff, but thought I'd check first.
Thanks
I checked that the system time was correct.
I had modified /etc/anarontab to the following:
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SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
# the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs
RANDOM_DELAY=45
# the jobs will be started during the following hours only
START_HOURS_RANGE=3-6
#period in days delay in minutes job-identifier command
1 5 cron.daily nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly 45 cron.monthly nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
I thought of moving /etc/cron.daily/mailwatch to a regular cron job, but I think he next update would put it back resulting in 2 copies of reports being sent.
Is there any other underlying process for sending the reports that I'm missing? Seem pretty standard linux stuff, but thought I'd check first.
Thanks