On Tue, 27 May 2025, 16:01 Francesco Potortì, <poto...@isti.cnr.it> wrote:
> Package: logcheck > Version: 1.4.4 > Severity: normal > > After the latest upgrade, I receive reports every hour rather than every > day as usual. I changed the /etc/cron.d/logcheck crontab to revert to the > previous behaviour, but nothing apparently changed. > > I read in the Changelog that > > * Add a basic systemd timer/service for logcheck (See: #1020328) > * d/control: > - Prefer systemd-sysv over cron > > however, this change is not mentioned in any of the README files in the > doc dir nor in the man page. Also one of the REDME files explicitely > mentions that changing the frequency involves changing the crontab file. > > Please add instructions on how to manage cron / systemd to change the > frequency > fair point, you can change when the systemd timer runs by doing a systemctl edit logcheck.timer and adding a [Timer] section with one of the directives explained in systemd.timer(5)
