[rhelv6-list] Cron and logrotate?

Hugh Brown hbrown at divms.uiowa.edu
Wed Oct 5 18:26:59 UTC 2011


On 10/05/2011 09:57 AM, Paul Reilly wrote:
> Coming from RHEL5.4  to  Redhat RHEL6.x I've notice that  /etc/crontab no
> longer has entries to run the  logrotate scripts.
> There's no daily, weekly, monthly anymore.  How are these being run now?
>
> On a related note - is anacron now mandatory or can it be removed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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By default it is run through anacron (config is /etc/anacrontab). If you 
don't want anacron, you can install cronie-noanacron

Hugh




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