Re: Message files not rotating
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:13:32PM +0000, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 12:20 am, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 17:23:13 +0000, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> > > On Sunday 06 August 2006 09:43 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:31:40PM +0000, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> > > > > I discovered that /var/log/messages is 428.6 MB on my IBM
snip...
>
> One more question: Is it possible to run cron jobs manually? That
> way I could run cron at my convenience, rather than tie up system
> resources while I'm working.
Yes, its possible. I've been doing it quite recently. You probably
need to run as root. The executable is found in whatever directory the
run-parts command points to. My experience is only with contents of
/etc/cron.daily, but I think it should be OK for all the rest. I run
just the particular one I want to freshen, e.g. #/etc/cron.daily/dwww
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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