On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:56:29PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > The root partition of a machine running Debian Etch has filled up because > log files like /var/log/syslog are not rotated and have become huge. > > As far as I understand, the script that rotates the system logs is > /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd, which should be triggered by the entry > > 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts > --report /etc/cron.daily ) > > in /etc/crontab. But I found only one reference to the scripts in > cron.daily being executed over the last couple of months. > > Could it be that cron ignores its daily tasks if the machine is down at the > time specified for cron.daily in /etc/crontab? I.e., if the machine is > never up at 6:25am, the daily cron jobs are never executed? If that's the > case, how do I schedule jobs that are truly executed every day, even if the > machine only runs at irregular times? Just install anacron. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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