redhat-list Digest, Vol 60, Issue 7

[Ravi Shanmugam]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I could not find any files in /etc/cron.hourly folder. The folder was empty.

Rgds,
RSR

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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:00:45 -0700
From: Joshua Gimer <jgimer at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Query on Logrotate
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What is in /etc/cron.hourly/?

You might want to check /var/log/cron to see if there are any jobs that are running every hour outside of your /etc/cron.d/config job that could be doing this.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Ravi Shanmugam <ravi.shanmugam at sasken.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have configured logrotate to logorotate every 12 hour. The configurations are as follows.
>
> /etc/cron.d/config
> -------------------------
>
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=""
> HOME=/root
> 0 */12 * * * root logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/test
>
>
> /etc/logrotate.d/test
> --------------------------------
> /var/ipaccess/nanobsc/CheckIn/application/log/*.log  {
>        daily
>        size 5M
>        missingok
>        copytruncate
>        rotate 10
> }
>
> But this log files are rotated every hour. Could somebody explain me why this behaviour.
>
> Regds,
> RSR
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