Logrotate script is running even if my m/c is not on at 4.02
 

I have some questions about the daily scripts that are executed by cron.
The /etc/cron.daily contains a script logrotate which is executed daily at 4.02. By my machine is never switched on at that time, but still log files are getting rotated. For eg., /var/log/messages is to be rotated weekly. I think it is getting rotated on every monday at around 9.30 am though according to system crontab /etc/crontab, logrotate should be executed only at 4.02.

Another daily cronjob, tmpwatch seems to be working fine. I don't think it is getting executed as i have files in my /tmp directory from Aug 2003.

check if you have anacron running. if so, it runs your cron jobs when you switch your machine on.

Thanks jib2. This info was really helpful