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Re: Log rotation time?



On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:30:28PM -0500, vr wrote:

> Is doing it at the stroke of midnight an unwise practice?

Well, on a home system it doesn't matter much. For production use,
though, you generally want to avoid CPU or I/O spikes, and running a ton
of stuff at the same time would be a Bad Thing (tm). Since midnight
tends to be an obvious choice for many things, a lot of system scripts
are set to kick off elsewhen.

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