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RHEL 5.* logfiles

How do you check what time the logfiles run?

I can see in:

/etc/logrotate.conf

that they are daily, and in:

/etc/logrotate.d

who is being rotated...

but is there a way to tell what time they will run? Is it just a default of midnight? How can you tell?

How would I go about setting them so that the rotated at, say 3am in the morning?

Many Thanks in advance,

Lee

You can see the time at which the logrotate script is executed by looking at /etc/crontab. For example on my RHEL4 system I have:

Code:

$ cat /etc/crontab

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=root

HOME=/



# 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

As you can see the daily job is executed at 4:02 AM. This is confirmed by the cron log:

Code:

$ grep daily /var/log/cron

Aug 24 04:02:01 server crond[23584]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.daily)

Aug 24 04:02:04 server anacron[23991]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2009-08-24

Aug 25 04:02:01 server crond[25136]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.daily)

Aug 25 04:02:04 server anacron[25563]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2009-08-25

You can change the time in /etc/crontab if you have root privileges.

You can see what time they run by looking at the contents of the following file:

/etc/crontab

For example you could run the following command:

Code:

[root@fs2 etc]# cat crontab 

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=root

HOME=/



# 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

Usually the logrotate script is run with the 'cron.daily'

Regards,

Fordeck