[vox-tech] Cron Confusion

[Robert G. Scofield]

I'm sorry to be so vague in this request for help.  Here's the story.  I once complained that my files in /var/log were getting so big, especially "messages."  Someone said that Red Hat had a program to deal with this problem.  He said it was a cron job.  Apparently he discovered that my cron job was scheduled to be done at around 4 in the morning on Sundays when my computer is off.  So, he changed a file so that the cron job would run at 3:00 Sunday afternoon.

On Sundays now  the cron job generates new files in /var/log.  So, instead of just "messages" I get "messages.1" and "messages.2" etc.   Every once in awhile I go in and remove all of the files that have numbers for extensions.  (Though after reading about logrotate I suspect that these files will be automatically deleted by some cron job.)

Here's the problem.  I'd like to find the cron file that was modified so that I can study it, and learn how to schedule the cron job for a different time.   But I can't find it anywhere.  The command crontab -l gives me the message that I have no crontab.  I can't find anything in the following directories that look like the cron file that was modified:  cron.d, cron.daily, cron.hourly, cron.monthly, cron.weekly, crontab.  Does anyone know where I might find this cron job file?

Thank you.

Bob

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Robert G. Scofield
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