How do I set the time of day for logwatch?

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Jun 20 20:14:51 UTC 2025



On 6/20/25 3:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> 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..

well, I am talking servers here...

> 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.

I don't know enough to find any systemd timers.  I can't find any 
obvious cron stuff.  the

/etc/cron.daily/00logwatch

So it may be tied into the daily cron timer, but where is that?





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