Re: Logwatch (randomly) skipping days => Feature!?

[Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

On 17.02.2019 15:42, Tom Rymes wrote:
> Is this a ticking issue where one log has two days’ data and the other is empty?

[Correction:
Of course I meant '.../2019-01-26' ;-) ]

Looking an it - could be the case. The log created on 2019-01-28 is
significantly bigger:

***SNIP***
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  43698 Jan 24 00:01 2019-01-23
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  56469 Jan 25 00:01 2019-01-24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  57936 Jan 26 00:01 2019-01-25
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Jan 27 00:01 2019-01-26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114650 Jan 28 00:01 2019-01-27
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40121 Jan 29 00:01 2019-01-28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  38220 Jan 30 00:01 2019-01-29
...
***SNAP***

But what can I do about this? For now, I changed running time to
"03 0 * * *".

Best,
Matthias

>> On Feb 17, 2019, at 4:22 AM, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I discovered something weird:
>> 
>> From time to time 'logwatch' does not create a daily log.
>> 
>> E.g.:
>> The file '/var/log/logwatch/2019-14-26' exists, but size = 0 Bytes.
>> 
>> The same happened yesterday with '/var/log/logwatch/2019-02-16':
>> 0 Bytes.
>> 
>> After running...
>> 
>> /usr/local/bin/logwatch > /var/log/logwatch/`date -I -d yesterday`; \
>> LOGWATCH_KEEP=$(sed -ne 's/^LOGWATCH_KEEP=\([0-9]\+\)$/\1/p'
>> /var/ipfire/logging/settings); \
>> find /var/log/logwatch/ -ctime +${LOGWATCH_KEEP=56} -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
>> 
>> ...manually from console, file was created, everything looks ok.
>> 
>> 1. Can anyone confirm?
>> 
>> 2. With which parameter could I change the starting time "01 0 * * *" so
>> that this doesn't happen again? I'm searching, but can't find a grip on
>> this...
>> 
>> Best,
>> Matthias
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