On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:31:43PM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2014-02-25 13:53 GMT+01:00 Tazman Deville <tazmandevil@gmx.com > <mailto:tazmandevil@gmx.com>>: > > My /etc/crontab is as follows: > > SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > > # m h dom mon dow user �command > 17 * � �* * * � root � �cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly > 15 4 � �* * * � root � �test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts > --report /etc/cron.daily ) > 07 3 � �* * 7 � root � �test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts > --report /etc/cron.weekly ) > 52 1 � �1 * * � root � �test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts > --report /etc/cron.monthly ) > > I DO have anacron installed. > I do not know what is relevant from syslog. > I find no mention of cron, crontab, or logrotate in /var/log/syslog > at all. > > That's quite weird, indeed you should have something like that > > /USR/SBIN/CRON[32528]: (root) CMD ( � cd / && run-parts --report > /etc/cron.hourly) > > /USR/SBIN/CRON[32528]: (root) CMD ( � cd / && run-parts --report > /etc/cron.daily) > > etc etc... > > BTW Your crontab is correct > > run > > # run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily This gives a lot of output. I did see an error for the existence of two scripts in /etc/logrotate.d for things I'd removed (popcon, and a friendica installation), so I removed those. I had had a problem with popcon logs a while back, where they were filling up the hdd (at least, used up 100% of my inodes), so had removed popcon. > > then > > # grep -i cron /var/log/syslog I did this earlier (actually, I did less /var/log/syslog then searched with /cron), and found nothing. Honest, I swear! Now, I just dug into the older ones, just from this past week, and found stuff like Feb 19 19:40:01 tonybaldwin /USR/SBIN/CRON[11248]: (www-data) CMD ([ -x /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh ] && /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh) Feb 19 19:50:01 tonybaldwin /USR/SBIN/CRON[12029]: (www-data) CMD ([ -x /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh ] && /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh) Feb 19 20:00:01 tonybaldwin /USR/SBIN/CRON[12832]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/mywebstat.sh) Feb 19 20:00:01 tonybaldwin /USR/SBIN/CRON[12835]: (www-data) CMD ([ -x /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh ] && /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh) Feb 19 20:00:01 tonybaldwin /USR/SBIN/CRON[12836]: (www-data) CMD (if [ -f /usr/share/pnopaste/bin/expired_delete.pl ]; then /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/pnopaste/bin/expired_delete.pl > /dev/null; fi) But I'm using neither awstats nor pnopaste, nor have I for some time. I just purged the box of anything related to either. It seems this may help with the excessive abuse of CPU cycles, but I'm still at a loss for why logrotate is running after 7 am, when my crontab is set to run the cron.daily stuff at 4:15am. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me art, music, software by me, tony 3F330C6E
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