cron running at odd times?

[Adam Funk]

On 2012-02-20, Knute Johnson wrote:

> On 2/19/2012 7:14 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Knute Johnson<ubuntu at knutejohnson.com>  wrote:
>>> Anybody have any idea why my one of my cron.daily scripts would get run an
>>> extra time 10+ hours late?  I did notice that it missed one run of this
>>> script a few days ago.
>>
>> Based on what I have read about cron, you should edit your
>> user-specific cron entries with the crontab command.
>>
>> That is, you may open a terminal as root and type
>>
>> crontab
>>
>> there you may enter your cron entries.
>>
>>
>
> This is the system /etc/cron.daily folder.  You can't put a script in 
> there that you want run as root every day?

Is it possible the computer was off during the usual cron.daily time
and anacron ran it later?