Logrotate not starting a new log file at cron.daily time?

Larry Brower larry at maxqe.com
Sun Feb 14 01:23:08 UTC 2010


Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> Every day I want to run a script on the current, complete maillog file 
> so I set it up in crontab for 04:01 - one minute before the cron.daily 
> logrotate happens but all the maillog log files start with lines in the 
> file that vary between 03:00 and 04:02 - how is this possible? - 
> shouldn't they all be after 04:02?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.

It would help if we saw the script and the logrotate configuration.



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