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From where is cron.daily been executed?

dragnovich

Basic Pleskian
Hello I have some servers on all of them we have CentOS 5 and plesk 9, how ever we have one with centOs 6 and plesk 11 and I cant find where is the cron.daily been executed (it is executed but on a peek time for that specific server) I would like to move the cron.daily start time 3 or 4 hours after it is started.

I try accessing the crontab but It is empty:
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# cat /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * user-name command to be executed
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and crontab -e gives me:
0 1 * * * /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/secur-check
0 1 * * 1 /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/send-report weekly
10 1 * * * /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/clean-sysstats
15 1 * * * /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/pack-sysstats day
15 1 * * 1 /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/pack-sysstats week
15 1 1 * * /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/pack-sysstats month
15 1 1 * * /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/pack-sysstats year
20 1 * * * /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/clean-events
0 3 * * 7 /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/clean-reports
 
cat /etc/cron.d/dailyjobs

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
43 0 * * * root [ ! -f /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && run-parts /etc/cron.daily
5 1 * * 0 root [ ! -f /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
34 5 17 * * root [ ! -f /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
 
I try that before, but there's no look:

# cat /etc/cron.d/dailyjobs
cat: /etc/cron.d/dailyjobs: No such file or directory
# ls -la /etc/cron.d
total 44
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 2 10:10 .
drwxr-xr-x. 112 root root 12288 Oct 11 18:26 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 113 Jul 18 2011 0hourly
-rw------- 1 root root 129 Sep 23 11:23 billing-task-manager
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 170 Sep 23 2011 mailman
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 Oct 12 21:43 plesk-backup-manager
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 108 Apr 26 11:56 raid-check
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 Sep 22 21:39 sa-update
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 235 Oct 12 21:45 sysstat

I checked all that files and none set's the cron to the times Im looking... how ever I also see a /etc/cron.daily directorio from which the program I want to change is been runned, how ever there's no reference any where to set the cron to any specific time,
 
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