Re: logwatch at midnight?
Dan Ritter writes: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of >> its current 0738, please? > > If I recall correctly, logwatch is run via cron.daily, which > means anacron does it as part of its own routine. > > anacron is fired off via /etc/crontab. > > You have two choices: > > 1. edit the whole daily anacron job in /etc/crontab, which will > affect lots of jobs > > or > > 2. move the logwatch job out of /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.d, then > reformat it to be a proper cron job (give it a specific time to > run in crontab format) > > -dsr- Thanks for this Dan, and also Charles. I took the path of least problems and used option 2. I already had a logwatch job working in roots crontab, so now I'm just getting the midnight logwatch, which is what I wanted. Thanks very much both. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 10.1, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 26.3, org 9.2.6 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: logwatch at midnight?
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 00:09, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Yeah, the good old days when the system could fit on a floppy, and USB > wasn't invented. Blissful times. Agreed, see [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Connector_types
Re: logwatch at midnight?
Quoting ghe (2019-09-09 16:02:27) > On 9/9/19 5:47 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > > > Kudzuesque systemd appears to be taking over everything > > Remember the good old days when a *nix program did one thing and did > it well? Yeah, the good old days when the system could fit on a floppy, and USB wasn't invented. Blissful times. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature
Re: logwatch at midnight?
On 9/9/19 5:47 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > Kudzuesque systemd appears to be taking over everything Remember the good old days when a *nix program did one thing and did it well? -- Glenn English
Re: logwatch at midnight?
On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:01:56 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of > its current 0738, please? Kudzuesque systemd appears to be taking over everything I want logwatch and other things to run at 04:30 or so, so here's what I do as I install/upgrade to Debian 10 (buster): * cp -rp /lib/systemd/system/anacron.timer /etc/systemd/system * edit the "OnCalendar" line of /etc/systemd/system/anacron.timer to suit: sed -i.old -e's/07/04/' /etc/systemd/system/anacron.timer * run "systemctl daemon-reload" to force reloading everything. I expect you can adapt the sed edit to your own situation. As Dan Ritter noted, this will affect every anacron daily job. That's fine by me, you may prefer his other solution. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts and sciences; but the true distinction between it and barbarism is, that the one presents a state of society under the protection of just and well-administered law, and the other is left to the chance government of brute force." - The Rev. James White, Eighteen Christian Centuries, 1889 Key fingerprint = 38DD CE9F 9725 42DD E29A EB11 7514 6D37 A332 10CB https://charlescurley.com
Re: logwatch at midnight?
Sharon Kimble wrote: > > How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of > its current 0738, please? If I recall correctly, logwatch is run via cron.daily, which means anacron does it as part of its own routine. anacron is fired off via /etc/crontab. You have two choices: 1. edit the whole daily anacron job in /etc/crontab, which will affect lots of jobs or 2. move the logwatch job out of /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.d, then reformat it to be a proper cron job (give it a specific time to run in crontab format) -dsr-
logwatch at midnight?
How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of its current 0738, please? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 10.0, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 26.3, org 9.2.6 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
