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  • Bug#1106667: logcheck: apparently uses systemd rather than cron, but it

    From Francesco =?utf-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 27 17:10:01 2025
    Package: logcheck
    Version: 1.4.4
    Severity: normal

    After the latest upgrade, I receive reports every hour rather than every day as usual. I changed the /etc/cron.d/logcheck crontab to revert to the previous behaviour, but nothing apparently changed.

    I read in the Changelog that

    * Add a basic systemd timer/service for logcheck (See: #1020328)
    * d/control:
    - Prefer systemd-sysv over cron

    however, this change is not mentioned in any of the README files in the doc dir nor in the man page. Also one of the REDME files explicitely mentions that changing the frequency involves changing the crontab file.

    Please add instructions on how to manage cron / systemd to change the frequency

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    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 13.0
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
    Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

    Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
    ii adduser 3.152
    ii anacron 2.3-42
    ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-196
    ii exim4-da
  • From Richard Lewis@21:1/5 to Potorti@isti.cnr.it on Fri May 30 19:30:01 2025
    On Tue, 27 May 2025, 16:01 Francesco Potortì, <Potorti@isti.cnr.it> wrote:

    Package: logcheck
    Version: 1.4.4
    Severity: normal

    After the latest upgrade, I receive reports every hour rather than every
    day as usual. I changed the /etc/cron.d/logcheck crontab to revert to the previous behaviour, but nothing apparently changed.

    I read in the Changelog that

    * Add a basic systemd timer/service for logcheck (See: #1020328)
    * d/control:
    - Prefer systemd-sysv over cron

    however, this change is not mentioned in any of the README files in the
    doc dir nor in the man page. Also one of the REDME files explicitely mentions that changing the frequency involves changing the crontab file.

    Please add instructions on how to manage cron / systemd to change the frequency


    fair point,

    you can change when the systemd timer runs by doing a

    systemctl edit logcheck.timer

    and adding a [Timer] section with one of the directives explained in systemd.timer(5)

    <div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 27 May 2025, 16:01 Francesco Potortì, &lt;<a href="mailto:Potorti@isti.cnr.it" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Potorti@isti.cnr.it</a>&gt; wrote:<br></
    <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Package: logcheck<br>
    Version: 1.4.4<br>
    Severity: normal<br>

    After the latest upgrade, I receive reports every hour rather than every day as usual.  I changed the /etc/cron.d/logcheck crontab to revert to the previous behaviour, but nothing apparently changed.<br>

    I read in the Changelog that<br>

      * Add a basic systemd timer/service for logcheck (See: #1020328)<br>
      * d/control:<br>
        - Prefer systemd-sysv over cron<br>

    however, this change is not mentioned in any of the README files in the doc dir nor in the man page.  Also one of the REDME files explicitely mentions that changing the frequency involves changing the crontab file.<br>

    Please add instructions on how to manage cron / systemd to change the frequency<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">fair point,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">you can change when the systemd timer runs by
    doing a</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">systemctl edit logcheck.timer</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">and adding a [Timer] section with one of the directives explained in systemd.timer(5)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div
    dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>

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  • From Mathias Gibbens@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 31 15:30:01 2025
    control: tags -1 + pending

    Added a NEWS entry and updated README.Debian.

    Mathias

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