How do I set the time of day for logwatch?

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 19:59:56 UTC 2025


On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM Robert Moskowitz via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Each of my new servers are running logwatch at a different time, and I
> can't find where this is controlled.  it is not crontab.
>
> I would like them all to run within a tight time window.

I can't give you a definitive answer because I do not have logwatch
installed on my workstation, but..

Perhaps a Systemd timer? According to
<https://sourceforge.net/p/logwatch/feature-requests/14/>, it looks
like the two install options are Cron or Systemd. That's assuming a
distro did not make non-trivial changes, like adding additional ways
to trigger the program.

Jeff



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