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    • BBcan177B
      BBcan177 Moderator
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      The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…

      "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

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        battles
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        Thanks, now I see the light!  There doesn't seem to be a 'weekly' in the list.

        pfSense 2.3.4-RELEASE-p1 (i386)
        FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p19
        pfBlockerNG 2.1.2_1
        Snort Security 3.2.9.5_3
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          drewsaur
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          @BBcan177:

          The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…

          When I set this to "3", it wants to run my daily CRON at 1 AM. What might I be missing?

          Drew

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          • BBcan177B
            BBcan177 Moderator
            last edited by

            @drewsaur:

            @BBcan177:

            The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…

            When I set this to "3", it wants to run my daily CRON at 1 AM. What might I be missing?

            Drew

            This depends on what settings you configured for the first cron selection box.

            "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

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              drewsaur
              last edited by

              @BBcan177:

              @drewsaur:

              @BBcan177:

              The last dropdown select box (Daily/Weekly start hour) is the setting that you're looking for…

              When I set this to "3", it wants to run my daily CRON at 1 AM. What might I be missing?

              Drew

              This depends on what settings you configured for the first cron selection box.

              It's set to Daily.

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              • BBcan177B
                BBcan177 Moderator
                last edited by

                I'll check it out…

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                • BBcan177B
                  BBcan177 Moderator
                  last edited by

                  When you select "Daily or Weekly", you can define the hour in the last selection box "Daily/Weekly start hour"

                  "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

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                  Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
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                    drewsaur
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                    I hope the attached makes my problem clearer.

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                      drewsaur
                      last edited by

                      But when I look at my pfBlocker widget, it looks like everything is OK. So it's just a bug with the "Update" panel, I think….

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                        drewsaur
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                        BBcan177,

                        Now that I know you are the author of pfBlockerNG, I want to say THANK YOU, and also want to provide you with any information you deem helpful to address this apparent bug - please let me know,

                        Drew

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                        • BBcan177B
                          BBcan177 Moderator
                          last edited by

                          @drewsaur:

                          BBcan177,

                          Now that I know you are the author of pfBlockerNG, I want to say THANK YOU, and also want to provide you with any information you deem helpful to address this apparent bug - please let me know,

                          Drew

                          It's actually not a bug ™... ;)

                          The Update tab uses the Cron Hourly setting. The Cron hour setting is used in the cron task.

                          The Daily/Weekly setting is used to define a specific Alias/Group to use a different hour setting. So even if the Cron setting is defined as "hourly", the "Daily/Weekly hour" can be used to only download an Alias/Group at the "Daily/Weekly" hour setting.

                          Hope that answers your question.

                          "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

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                            drewsaur
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                            What I mean by the bug is that "1:30" shows up as the next update time in the update tab…please see my original screenshot.

                            Thanks again,

                            Drew

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                              GregTheHun @drewsaur
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                              Sorry for the resurrection,

                              I seem to be experiencing the same issue, and my cron update won't go past 1 AM, and I'm on pfsense 2.5

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