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
What exactly fires logrotate (and other scheduled events like "logwatch", which ends up in root's inbox)? === Al
On Aug 21, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Al Sparks wrote:
What exactly fires logrotate (and other scheduled events like "logwatch", which ends up in root's inbox)?
look at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate and /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch. those scripts (and the others in /etc/cron.*ly) are invoked by the following code in /etc/crontab:
# run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
-steve
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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.
--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
From: Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] What fires logrotate To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 10:13 AM 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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Thanks. Very helpful. === Al
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 at 11:06am, 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
What exactly fires logrotate (and other scheduled events like "logwatch", which ends up in root's inbox)?
Look in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,monthly,weekly}.
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