Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of >> its current 0738, please? > > If I recall correctly, logwatch is run via cron.daily, which > means anacron does it as part of its own routine. > > anacron is fired off via /etc/crontab. > > You have two choices: > > 1. edit the whole daily anacron job in /etc/crontab, which will > affect lots of jobs > > or > > 2. move the logwatch job out of /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.d, then > reformat it to be a proper cron job (give it a specific time to > run in crontab format) > > -dsr- Thanks for this Dan, and also Charles. I took the path of least problems and used option 2. I already had a logwatch job working in roots crontab, so now I'm just getting the midnight logwatch, which is what I wanted. Thanks very much both. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 10.1, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 26.3, org 9.2.6
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