Re: logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
roper 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

Re: logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-09 Thread David
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 00:09, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Yeah, the good old days when the system could fit on a floppy, and USB > wasn't invented. Blissful times. Agreed, see [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Connector_types

Re: logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting ghe (2019-09-09 16:02:27) > On 9/9/19 5:47 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > > > Kudzuesque systemd appears to be taking over everything > > Remember the good old days when a *nix program did one thing and did > it well? Yeah, the good old days when the system could fit on a floppy, and

Re: logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-09 Thread ghe
On 9/9/19 5:47 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > Kudzuesque systemd appears to be taking over everything Remember the good old days when a *nix program did one thing and did it well? -- Glenn English

Re: logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:01:56 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of > its current 0738, please? Kudzuesque systemd appears to be taking over everything I want logwatch and other things to run at 04:30 or so, so here's what I do as

Re: logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-09 Thread Dan Ritter
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

logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of its current 0738, please? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 10.0, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 26.3, org 9.2.6