Because I don't have my computer on for 24 hours a day, I always modify /etc/crontab to fire at a time when I will likely be on my computer. So in my Debian partition crontab fires during the 8:00 pm hour, and in my SuSE partition crontab fires during the 9:00 pm hour.
Since I've had SuSE 9.2, /var/log/messages has not been rotated or deleted once. But in Debian, /var/log/messages has been rotated a couple of times since I modified /etc/crontab. My old SuSE 9.0, and my old Mandrake systems also rotated /var/log messages after I changed /etc/crontab. But SuSE 9.2 is not rotating. According to the SuSE 9.2 Administration Guide "logrotate is controlled through cron and is called daily by /etc/cron.daily/." After reading *man logrotate* I put the following into /etc/logrotate.conf: /var/log/messages { rotate 5 daily postrotate /sbin/killall -HUP syslogd endscript } But this has not resulted in /var/log/messages being rotated or deleted. And I notice that in my Debian system there is no reference to /var/log/messages in /etc/logrotate.conf. So I have concluded that /var/log/messages (at least in Debian) is controlled by something other than /etc/logrotate.conf. So can anybody tell me how to get SuSE to rotate or delete /var/log/messages? I realize that I can always use "bobcron" or "dummycron." Here's how bobcron works: "rm messages." But I'd like to get this system to work the way it's supposed to. Thank you. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech