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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.

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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
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            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
                        last edited by

                        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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                        • GregTheHunG
                          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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