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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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF