On 10/5/20 1:03 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/4/20 7:11 PM, Alex wrote: >> I have a fedora32 system and would like the maillog to rotate exactly >> at a specific time. How do I do that? It used to be that I could >> create a crontab entry but now there appears to be this timer service, >> including /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer included with the >> package that appear to control that. > > Yes, so if you want to change the time it runs, then copy that file to > /etc/systemd. Edit it and remove the "AccuracySec=1h" line and edit > the "OnCalendar=daily" to set the time you want it to run. > > See "man systemd.time" for details on the time formats. For example > "OnCalendar=*-*-* 01:00:00 would run it every day at 1AM. > > After you're finished, run "systemctl daemon-reload" so that the new > file is picked up. > >> However, there doesn't seem to be a timer entry in systemctl output. >> Ideas on how to get started would be appreciated. > > It seems that the triggering timer isn't mentioned in the log, but you > should see the log entries for running logrotate. > "journalctl -b -u logrotate" will list only those. > _______________________________________________ the fedora wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Notting/timer
the arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers and if all else fails, :) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
