[Eug-lug] crontab - last day of month

[Matthew Jarvis]

horst wrote:
<snip>>
> b) cron jobs that come with packages (log analysis/rotation, backup,...) 
> have the tendency to start at the hour, or 15/30/45 min. You don't want 
> to interfere with those, or compete for resources. Secondly, if your 
> cron job starts at 5:37, and some odd issues also start at 5:37 it's 
> easier to pip-point trouble spots.
> 
> In short, it pays off to schedule cron jobs wisely................Horst
> 

It's so funny you mention 5:37 as an example time... At one point I had 
a cron job scheduled at 5:37 and for some reason it (usually) wouldn't 
run or complete... changing to 5:34 solved the problem (at least well 
enough)...

Never did find out what the heck the conflict was....


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