Is there a way I can select when (say at 6 PM each night) the /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-backend will run?

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well you can't change just mythtv-backend, through the system cron jobs, but you can change all daily cron jobs to run at a different time by editing /etc/crontab (you have to restart cron after editing it.) or you could remove it from cron.daily and setup a user cron job at whatever time you want if you need to just change that one job.

Hey cool... when I read the man page for crontab it cautioned against editing /etc/crontab manually. Did it anyway and now everything is cool. Thanks for the help Xsecrets.

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

yes well the reason you don't want to edit crontab directly is that cron will not see the changes untill the next time it is restarted either by a reboot, or manually restarted with the init script.

that's why there is a command crontab -e.

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yes I know of that command for the user crontabs, but how do you use it to edit the system crontab? I'm not saying you can't I just don't know how.

sorry, my fault. I was on users crontab.
Hmm, can't even hide behind it being to early.

I would propose to move the mythbackend cron out of
the /etc/cron.d and open a mythtv user crontab.

Perhaps even in general, but at least when changing the
execution time.

And a touch -m /etc/crontab should be enough to force cron
to reload modified cron.d parts.

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