Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On mardi 24 avril 2018 18:40:55 CEST John Cunningham wrote: > I cheated and added logrotate to root's crontab as an ugly hack to get them > rotating. What is the *right* way to get it going again? I just noticed a similar problem on my system. I've installed systemd-cron and purged cron. Now

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-08 Thread John Cunningham
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 5:10 AM Jonathan de Boyne Pollard < j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > So bear in mind that your learned ideas about what runs what are no > longer true. > > If I still did sigfiles, this would now be in mine. Thank you very much for your helpful reply.

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-06 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On May 6, 2018, at 05:10, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard > wrote: > > John Cunningham: > >> I hate to wade into the pool of systemd hate, but is this systemd's fault? I >> noticed anacron doesn't exist on this

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-06 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
John Cunningham: I hate to wade into the pool of systemd hate, but is this systemd's fault? I noticed anacron doesn't exist on this system. Is it supposed to anymore? Or is that one of the things that have been deprecated? If so, how are the /etc/cron.daily jobs getting run these days?

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-03 Thread Boyan Penkov
Really late response here, but thanks — some reading of /etc/anacrontab and run-parts does make clear that edits of the crontab will then be run by anacron Thanks kindly! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Apr 24, 2018, at 14:27, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:09:06 -0400 Boyan Penkov wrote: Hello Boyan, >that this is the case, and automatically read the crontab, then write >an intelligent anacrontab with sane defaults? From the anacron page on packages.debian.org; This package is pre-configured to

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread Boyan Penkov
In this vein, is there a way to intelligently indicate to the system that this is the case, and automatically read the crontab, then write an intelligent anacrontab with sane defaults? Cheers! On 04/24/2018 02:04 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: If your system is not running 24/7, then anacron is

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-04-24 16:40 +, John Cunningham wrote: > I just noticed that logrotate hasn't been running since October 2016 on one > of my Jessie boxes. Manually running logrotate works without issue. This > is approximately the time I upgraded it from Wheezy. I hate to wade into > the pool of

Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread John Cunningham
Howdy, I just noticed that logrotate hasn't been running since October 2016 on one of my Jessie boxes. Manually running logrotate works without issue. This is approximately the time I upgraded it from Wheezy. I hate to wade into the pool of systemd hate, but is this systemd's fault? I noticed