On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:30:03PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote: > Hi, I have indicated syslog to log kernel msgs onto /var/log/kernel > > Now Since i use ipmasq with some loggin the file will is growing fast... 2mb > per day. > > I'd like to set a cron job that keeps a couple of days back logs and starts > a new each day. > > How is cron setted up on Debian? Could not make it work properly. (On redhat > i did it some time ago) > > Thanks in advance.
Hello Martin, does your computer run 24 hours a day? If not you should check whether anacron is installed - otherwise cron won't work as expected. hth regards Andreas.