Re: Log rotation time?

2009-11-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:30:28PM -0500, vr wrote: > Is doing it at the stroke of midnight an unwise practice? Well, on a home system it doesn't matter much. For production use, though, you generally want to avoid CPU or I/O spikes, and running a ton of stuff at the same time would be a Bad Thin

Re: Log rotation time?

2009-11-10 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
vr schreef: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:48:21 +0800, Jerome BENOIT If you box is a laptop, you may consider to install anachron. ... For some people, like me, minnight is really not appropriate :-) I would be interested to hear "why" it would not be appropriate in your case because perhaps you've

Re: Log rotation time?

2009-11-10 Thread vr
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:48:21 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello VR, > > actually it is configured in `/etc/crontab' , see crontab(1) crontab(5) > cron(8) with man for further details: Thanks for this. Based on an earlier list reply I was able to set it before midnight my time last night so it i

Re: Log rotation time?

2009-11-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello VR, actually it is configured in `/etc/crontab' , see crontab(1) crontab(5) cron(8) with man for further details: I guess it is a good idea to adapt the configuration with respect to the use of the computer. If you box is a laptop, you may consider to install anachron. For some people, l

Re: Log rotation time?

2009-11-09 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:30:28 -0500 vr wrote: > It looks like the stock logs rotate at 6:24 AM my time? This seems like a > strange "time" to do it to me, is this typical? Or is something not set > local correctly my system? Typical; here's my (stock) '/etc/crontab': ... # m h dom mon dow user

Log rotation time?

2009-11-09 Thread vr
It looks like the stock logs rotate at 6:24 AM my time? This seems like a strange "time" to do it to me, is this typical? Or is something not set local correctly my system? Is doing it at the stroke of midnight an unwise practice? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org