[SOLVED] Trying to figure out when is logrotate running? (systemd)

yzT! · 02-16-2015, 06:12 AM

I have configured a couple of logs to be included on logrotate. Now I'm trying to figure out when is logrotate running, because as I'm using Debian Jessie (systemd), it no longer works through cron.

Reading, it seems a logrotate.timer should exist, but

Code:

systemctl status logrotate.timer
● logrotate.timer
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Logrotate is working because I see that logs like syslog, messages... are rotating.

So where (in systemd's realm) is this configured?

Head_on_a_Stick · 02-16-2015, 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yzT!

So where (in systemd's realm) is this configured?

Have a look at /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/

I'm pretty sure (but not certain) that cron still works under systemd -- I know it can work just fine under Arch as long as the .service is enabled.

However, I only dabble in Debian and it is much more complicated so I could be wrong here.

yzT! · 02-16-2015, 08:16 AM

I think you didn't understand my question. logrotate.conf and logrotate.d/* is for configuring logrotate. However, what I'm asking is where does systemd schedule the time at which logrotate is going to be executed.

Cron works on systemd, in fact I have custom scripts that run under cron. But system services now run under systemd. To make it clearer, if I set up a cron task for logrotate, it would run twice, cron time and systemd time.

Head_on_a_Stick · 02-16-2015, 08:33 AM

Yes sorry.

I think the cron tasks you set up are still honoured under systemd as they were before -- systemd would only act if you wrote and enabled a systemd .timer file.

yzT! · 02-16-2015, 02:14 PM

I performed a search on the whole system for logrotate, and found that it was running through anacron. That's why I couldn't see it on any crontab.