On 16:56 Sun 16 Sep , Malte Forkel wrote: > The root partition of a machine running Debian Etch has filled up because > log files like /var/log/syslog are not rotated and have become huge. > > As far as I understand, the script that rotates the system logs is > /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd, which should be triggered by the entry > > 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts > --report /etc/cron.daily )
The key here is /usr/bin/anacron Look in /etc/anacrontab > > in /etc/crontab. But I found only one reference to the scripts in cron.daily > being executed over the last couple of months. > > Could it be that cron ignores its daily tasks if the machine is down at the > time specified for cron.daily in /etc/crontab? I.e., if the machine is never > up at 6:25am, the daily cron jobs are never executed? If that's the case, > how do I schedule jobs that are truly executed every day, even if the > machine only runs at irregular times? > anacrontab is especially for regular tasks on machines that are not up 24/7 HTH John -- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]