How is the periodic task initiated?

[andyl]

Hi,

At 8pm every day my Freenas box executes a bunch of tasks controlled from periodic.conf

Am I able to specify a different time from this? I'd prefer to do it overnight when the box isn't in use.

Cheers,
Andy.

 

[peterh]

edit /etc/crontab :
# Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
1 3 * * * root periodic daily
15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly
30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly

( it does not happen at 8pm however, is your clock syncronized ?)

 

[andyl]

Clock is synced.....

The emails come through at 20:01 every day. Weird.