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 -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v