[CentOS] What fires logrotate

Stephen Harris lists at spuddy.org
Thu Aug 21 18:13:48 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:06:19AM -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
> I've been taking a look at how RedHat (and CentOS) handles logrotate.
> According to the man page, logrotate is supposed to be fired by cron.
> But when I look at root's crontab
>    $ sudo crontab lu root
>    no crontab for root

See /etc/cron.daily
(see also other directories matching /etc/cron.*)

Look in /etc/crontab to see how they're called.

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rgds
Stephen



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