>On Tue, 27 May 2025, 16:01 Francesco Potortì, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: logcheck > Version: 1.4.4 > Severity: normal > > After the latest upgrade, I receive reports every hour rather than every day > as usual. I changed the /etc/cron.d/logcheck crontab to revert to the > previous behaviour, but nothing apparently changed. > > I read in the Changelog that > > * Add a basic systemd timer/service for logcheck (See: #1020328) > * d/control: > - Prefer systemd-sysv over cron > > however, this change is not mentioned in any of the README files in the doc > dir nor in the man page. Also one of the REDME files explicitely mentions > that changing the frequency involves changing the crontab file. > > Please add instructions on how to manage cron / systemd to change the > frequency > >fair point, > >you can change when the systemd timer runs by doing a > >systemctl edit logcheck.timer > >and adding a [Timer] section with one of the directives explained in >systemd.timer(5)
Thanks. I profited from this to at last learn at least the bare basics about systemd timers. After years of resistance, in the end I resigned myself to doing it...
