Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-27 Thread Tazman Deville
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:43:36AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:41:22AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 25 feb 14, 13:53:39, Tazman Deville wrote: I DO have anacron installed. Well,

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 feb 14, 13:53:39, Tazman Deville wrote: I DO have anacron installed. Well, purge (not remove) it then, or adjust /etc/anacrontab as needed ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-26 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 25 feb 14, 13:53:39, Tazman Deville wrote: I DO have anacron installed. Well, purge (not remove) it then, or adjust /etc/anacrontab as needed ;) Kind regards, Andrei Thanks, Andrei, But could you explain why I

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-26 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:41:22AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 25 feb 14, 13:53:39, Tazman Deville wrote: I DO have anacron installed. Well, purge (not remove) it then, or adjust /etc/anacrontab as needed ;)

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-26 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-26 12:43 GMT+01:00 Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.info: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 06:41:22AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 25 feb 14, 13:53:39, Tazman Deville wrote: I DO have anacron installed. Well,

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 feb 14, 06:41:22, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 25 feb 14, 13:53:39, Tazman Deville wrote: I DO have anacron installed. Well, purge (not remove) it then, or adjust /etc/anacrontab as needed ;) Thanks, Andrei,

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-25 Thread Tazman Deville
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:15:19PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 24 feb 14, 15:06:48, Tazman Deville wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:57:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU.

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-25 Thread Tazman Deville
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:38:24PM -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 13:57 +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:57:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. Logrotate *itself* shouldn't use much CPU. But there are a couple of things I can think that might make it do so: * A

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:10:38PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:57:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. Logrotate *itself* shouldn't use much CPU. But there

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-25 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-25 13:53 GMT+01:00 Tazman Deville tazmande...@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 ** * * rootcd / run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 15 4* * *

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 02:31:43PM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2014-02-25 13:53 GMT+01:00 Tazman Deville tazmande...@gmx.com mailto:tazmande...@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

cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread Tazman Deville
I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am. 15 4 * * * Also, in cron.daily/logrotate I added nice -n 15 I made these changes

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread Tazman Deville
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:57:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am. 15 4 * * *

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 feb 14, 15:06:48, Tazman Deville wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:57:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts at

Re: cron.daily logrotate beating up my server

2014-02-24 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 13:57 +0100, Tazman Deville wrote: I have a little server running here in my office, and logrotate kept running at c. 7am, and using up 100% CPU. I changed the line in /etc/crontab to run cron.daily scripts at 4:15am, instead of 7:whateveritwas am. 15 4 * * * Also, in