cron running at odd times?

[Adam Funk]

On 2012-02-20, Knute Johnson wrote:

> On 2/20/2012 4:29 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2012-02-20, Knute Johnson wrote:

>>> 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?
>>
>>
>
> It's on a server, it never gets shut off.

OK, the only other thing I can think of is this: I'm fairly sure the
scripts in /etc/cron.daily are run in alphabetical order (starting
with the numbers).  Maybe the script before your custom one is (for
some strange reason) occasionally taking a long time to complete?

(HTH)