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Re: Log Rotate on Debian via Cron Not working!



On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:30:03PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote:
> Hi, I have indicated syslog to log kernel msgs onto /var/log/kernel
> 
> Now Since i use ipmasq with some loggin the file will is growing fast... 2mb
> per day.
> 
> I'd like to set a cron job that keeps a couple of days back logs and starts
> a new each day.
> 
> How is cron setted up on Debian? Could not make it work properly. (On redhat
> i did it some time ago)
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Hello Martin,
does your computer run 24 hours a day?
If not you should check whether anacron is installed - otherwise cron won't
work as expected.

hth
regards
Andreas.



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