Re: Log rotation and other regular jobs

2002-09-11 Thread D. Joe Anderson
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 02:11:43PM +0100, Chris Evans wrote: > I am trying to understand how log rotation and other regular tasks . . . > but my mail logs are getting rotated every Sunday at a time varying > from 07.37 to 08.18 to judge from the timestamps on the files. I'd > really like to

Log rotation and other regular jobs

2002-09-08 Thread Chris Evans
I am trying to understand how log rotation and other regular tasks work. I thought I understood cron and didn't need anacron but find it's installed anyway now and it's emailing me daily, weekly & monthly reports and I've worked out that it's being called by cron from /etc/crontab ... all wel