[13:17] there doesn't appear to be an /etc/crontab in 16.04 [13:17] trying to find out when cron.daily is getting run [13:17] what about /etc/cron.d/ [13:19] nothing in there referenced the cron.daily or conr.weekly etc [13:22] root@test-none-provo4-irl:/etc/cron.d# ls -pl [13:22] total 8 [13:22] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 589 Jul 16 2014 mdadm [13:22] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Jun 27 20:41 popularity-contest [13:22] root@test-none-provo4-irl:/etc/cron.d# [13:41] this is a journey through the wonderful world of systemd [13:50] i suspected it might be systemd [13:53] should always be the first suspicion