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Fcron

2007-07-06T12:09:28Z

84.0.39.209: /* 64Bit */

{| style="text-align: left; background-color: AliceBlue;"
|-valign="top"
! Download Source:
| ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/fcron/fcron-{{Fcron Version}}.src.tar.gz
|}

----

{{Package-Introduction|Fcron is a periodical command scheduler which aims at replacing [[Vixie Cron]], so it implements most of its functionalities. However, unlike [[Vixie Cron]], Fcron does not assume that your system is running either all the time or regularly. You can, for instance, tell Fcron to execute tasks every x hours y minutes of system up time or to do a job only once in a specified interval of time. Fcron has also many more features: you can also set a nice value to a job, run it depending on the system load average, and much more.|http://fcron.free.fr/}}

== Dependencies ==

=== Optional ===
* [[Linux-PAM]]
* [[SELinux]]

== Creating the fcron User/Group ==

We need to create the fcron group and the fcron user to run '''fcron''':

groupadd -g 24 fcron &&
useradd -c "Fcron User" -d /dev/null -u 24 -g fcron -s /bin/false fcron

== Note to DESTDIR Fans ==

This package uses DESTDIR and for the most part installs itself beautifully. It has one problem however. The problem is [[Linux-PAM]]-related, so if you haven't installed [[Linux-PAM]], then you can ignore the rest of this section.

The script that determines whether you are you using the /etc/pam.conf or the /etc/pam.d scheme for [[Linux-PAM]] configuration checks whether or not /etc/pam.d exists. If it does, then it assumes that you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme. If it doesn't, then it assumes that you're using the /etc/pam.conf scheme. This works just fine unless you're using DESTDIR. The script fails to take DESTDIR into account. As such, it goes looking for <DESTDIR>/etc/pam.d and naturally doesn't find it.

So, if you're using DESTDIR, then it will ''always'' decide that you're using the /etc/pam.conf scheme. If you ''are'' using that scheme, then everythings fine and you can ignore the rest of this section. However if you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme, then you need to run the following command prior to running '''make install''':

install -dv <DESTDIR>/etc/pam.d

This rather simple fix makes it so that Fcron's script thinks that you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme - which of course is what we want. With that, DESTDIR works just as you'd expect.

== Additional Configuration Options ==
{|
|--with-editor=PATH: Set the default editor for fcron. Without this flag, Fcron assumes '''vi'''.
|-
|--with-run-non-privileged=no: This is used if you want to run '''fcron''' as an unprivleged user. You need to look at [http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/faq.html Fcron's FAQ] if you want to do this.
|-
|--with-dsssl-dir=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-{{DocBook DSSSL StyleSheets-Version}}: Pass this to build the DocBook documentation. This path assumes that you followed the CBLFS instructions for installing the [[DocBook DSSSL StyleSheets]].
|}

== Extra ==

If you want to Fcron to log its messages, then you need to add it to /etc/syslog.conf.

<pre>
sed -i 's@# End /etc/syslog.conf@@' /etc/syslog.conf &&
cat >> /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF"
# log Fcron:
cron.* -/var/log/cron.log

# End /etc/syslog.conf
EOF
</pre>

The large spacing makes it so that it lines up with what's already in /etc/syslog.conf. The sed makes it so that the comment that delineates the end of the file still delineates the end of the file after our addition.

In order to bring our changes into effect, we need to reload the '''sysklogd''' daemon:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd reload

== Non-Multilib ==

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail --with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== Command Explanations ===

''--without-sendmail'': This stops Fcron from e-mailing you the results of the '''fcron'' script.

''--with-boot-install=no'': This prevents the installation of the package's bootscript.

== Multilib ==
'''''This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.'''''

=== 32Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== N32 ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== 64Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure prefix=/usr --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

== Configuring ==

=== Config Files ===

/etc/fcron.conf, /etc/fcron.allow, and /etc/fcron.deny

=== Configuration Information ===

You don't really need to do anything to configure Fcron, but '''fcrontab''' is used to write '''fcron''' scripts. Refer to the man pages for more information.

If [[Linux-PAM]] was installed, then two PAM configuration files were installed in /etc/pam.d. However, if there is no /etc/pam.d and you are using /etc/pam.conf instead, then corresponding configuration sections were added to your pam.conf file instead.

=== Boot Script ===

[[blfs-bootscripts]] has a boot script for Fcron. Install it as follows:

make install-fcron

= Contents =

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
! Installed Programs:
| fcron, fcrondyn, fcronsighup, fcrontab
|-valign="top"
! Installed Libraries:
| None
|-valign="top"
! Installed Directory:
| /usr/share/doc/fcron-{{Fcron Version}}, /var/spool/fcron
|}

=== Short Descriptions ===

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
! fcron
| is a daemon to execute scheduled tasks.
|-valign="top"
! fcrondyn
| is a user tool intended to interact with a running fcron daemon. It can, for instance, list user's jobs loaded by fcron, run one of them, renice a running job, send a signal to a running job, etc.
|-valign="top"
! fcronsighup
| is the program used by '''fcrontab''' to tell '''fcron''' it should reload its configuration.
|-valign="top"
! fcrontab
| is the program intended to install, edit, list and remove the tables used by '''fcron''' daemon. As '''fcron''' internally uses a non-human readable format (this is needed because '''fcron''' saves more informations than the user gives, for example the time and date of next execution), the user cannot directly edit their fcrontab (the one used by '''fcron''').
|}

Fcron

2007-07-06T12:09:09Z

84.0.39.209: /* N32 */

{| style="text-align: left; background-color: AliceBlue;"
|-valign="top"
! Download Source:
| ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/fcron/fcron-{{Fcron Version}}.src.tar.gz
|}

----

{{Package-Introduction|Fcron is a periodical command scheduler which aims at replacing [[Vixie Cron]], so it implements most of its functionalities. However, unlike [[Vixie Cron]], Fcron does not assume that your system is running either all the time or regularly. You can, for instance, tell Fcron to execute tasks every x hours y minutes of system up time or to do a job only once in a specified interval of time. Fcron has also many more features: you can also set a nice value to a job, run it depending on the system load average, and much more.|http://fcron.free.fr/}}

== Dependencies ==

=== Optional ===
* [[Linux-PAM]]
* [[SELinux]]

== Creating the fcron User/Group ==

We need to create the fcron group and the fcron user to run '''fcron''':

groupadd -g 24 fcron &&
useradd -c "Fcron User" -d /dev/null -u 24 -g fcron -s /bin/false fcron

== Note to DESTDIR Fans ==

This package uses DESTDIR and for the most part installs itself beautifully. It has one problem however. The problem is [[Linux-PAM]]-related, so if you haven't installed [[Linux-PAM]], then you can ignore the rest of this section.

The script that determines whether you are you using the /etc/pam.conf or the /etc/pam.d scheme for [[Linux-PAM]] configuration checks whether or not /etc/pam.d exists. If it does, then it assumes that you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme. If it doesn't, then it assumes that you're using the /etc/pam.conf scheme. This works just fine unless you're using DESTDIR. The script fails to take DESTDIR into account. As such, it goes looking for <DESTDIR>/etc/pam.d and naturally doesn't find it.

So, if you're using DESTDIR, then it will ''always'' decide that you're using the /etc/pam.conf scheme. If you ''are'' using that scheme, then everythings fine and you can ignore the rest of this section. However if you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme, then you need to run the following command prior to running '''make install''':

install -dv <DESTDIR>/etc/pam.d

This rather simple fix makes it so that Fcron's script thinks that you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme - which of course is what we want. With that, DESTDIR works just as you'd expect.

== Additional Configuration Options ==
{|
|--with-editor=PATH: Set the default editor for fcron. Without this flag, Fcron assumes '''vi'''.
|-
|--with-run-non-privileged=no: This is used if you want to run '''fcron''' as an unprivleged user. You need to look at [http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/faq.html Fcron's FAQ] if you want to do this.
|-
|--with-dsssl-dir=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-{{DocBook DSSSL StyleSheets-Version}}: Pass this to build the DocBook documentation. This path assumes that you followed the CBLFS instructions for installing the [[DocBook DSSSL StyleSheets]].
|}

== Extra ==

If you want to Fcron to log its messages, then you need to add it to /etc/syslog.conf.

<pre>
sed -i 's@# End /etc/syslog.conf@@' /etc/syslog.conf &&
cat >> /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF"
# log Fcron:
cron.* -/var/log/cron.log

# End /etc/syslog.conf
EOF
</pre>

The large spacing makes it so that it lines up with what's already in /etc/syslog.conf. The sed makes it so that the comment that delineates the end of the file still delineates the end of the file after our addition.

In order to bring our changes into effect, we need to reload the '''sysklogd''' daemon:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd reload

== Non-Multilib ==

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail --with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== Command Explanations ===

''--without-sendmail'': This stops Fcron from e-mailing you the results of the '''fcron'' script.

''--with-boot-install=no'': This prevents the installation of the package's bootscript.

== Multilib ==
'''''This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.'''''

=== 32Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== N32 ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== 64Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

== Configuring ==

=== Config Files ===

/etc/fcron.conf, /etc/fcron.allow, and /etc/fcron.deny

=== Configuration Information ===

You don't really need to do anything to configure Fcron, but '''fcrontab''' is used to write '''fcron''' scripts. Refer to the man pages for more information.

If [[Linux-PAM]] was installed, then two PAM configuration files were installed in /etc/pam.d. However, if there is no /etc/pam.d and you are using /etc/pam.conf instead, then corresponding configuration sections were added to your pam.conf file instead.

=== Boot Script ===

[[blfs-bootscripts]] has a boot script for Fcron. Install it as follows:

make install-fcron

= Contents =

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
! Installed Programs:
| fcron, fcrondyn, fcronsighup, fcrontab
|-valign="top"
! Installed Libraries:
| None
|-valign="top"
! Installed Directory:
| /usr/share/doc/fcron-{{Fcron Version}}, /var/spool/fcron
|}

=== Short Descriptions ===

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
! fcron
| is a daemon to execute scheduled tasks.
|-valign="top"
! fcrondyn
| is a user tool intended to interact with a running fcron daemon. It can, for instance, list user's jobs loaded by fcron, run one of them, renice a running job, send a signal to a running job, etc.
|-valign="top"
! fcronsighup
| is the program used by '''fcrontab''' to tell '''fcron''' it should reload its configuration.
|-valign="top"
! fcrontab
| is the program intended to install, edit, list and remove the tables used by '''fcron''' daemon. As '''fcron''' internally uses a non-human readable format (this is needed because '''fcron''' saves more informations than the user gives, for example the time and date of next execution), the user cannot directly edit their fcrontab (the one used by '''fcron''').
|}

Fcron

2007-07-06T12:08:48Z

84.0.39.209: /* 32Bit */

{| style="text-align: left; background-color: AliceBlue;"
|-valign="top"
! Download Source:
| ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/fcron/fcron-{{Fcron Version}}.src.tar.gz
|}

----

{{Package-Introduction|Fcron is a periodical command scheduler which aims at replacing [[Vixie Cron]], so it implements most of its functionalities. However, unlike [[Vixie Cron]], Fcron does not assume that your system is running either all the time or regularly. You can, for instance, tell Fcron to execute tasks every x hours y minutes of system up time or to do a job only once in a specified interval of time. Fcron has also many more features: you can also set a nice value to a job, run it depending on the system load average, and much more.|http://fcron.free.fr/}}

== Dependencies ==

=== Optional ===
* [[Linux-PAM]]
* [[SELinux]]

== Creating the fcron User/Group ==

We need to create the fcron group and the fcron user to run '''fcron''':

groupadd -g 24 fcron &&
useradd -c "Fcron User" -d /dev/null -u 24 -g fcron -s /bin/false fcron

== Note to DESTDIR Fans ==

This package uses DESTDIR and for the most part installs itself beautifully. It has one problem however. The problem is [[Linux-PAM]]-related, so if you haven't installed [[Linux-PAM]], then you can ignore the rest of this section.

The script that determines whether you are you using the /etc/pam.conf or the /etc/pam.d scheme for [[Linux-PAM]] configuration checks whether or not /etc/pam.d exists. If it does, then it assumes that you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme. If it doesn't, then it assumes that you're using the /etc/pam.conf scheme. This works just fine unless you're using DESTDIR. The script fails to take DESTDIR into account. As such, it goes looking for <DESTDIR>/etc/pam.d and naturally doesn't find it.

So, if you're using DESTDIR, then it will ''always'' decide that you're using the /etc/pam.conf scheme. If you ''are'' using that scheme, then everythings fine and you can ignore the rest of this section. However if you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme, then you need to run the following command prior to running '''make install''':

install -dv <DESTDIR>/etc/pam.d

This rather simple fix makes it so that Fcron's script thinks that you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme - which of course is what we want. With that, DESTDIR works just as you'd expect.

== Additional Configuration Options ==
{|
|--with-editor=PATH: Set the default editor for fcron. Without this flag, Fcron assumes '''vi'''.
|-
|--with-run-non-privileged=no: This is used if you want to run '''fcron''' as an unprivleged user. You need to look at [http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/faq.html Fcron's FAQ] if you want to do this.
|-
|--with-dsssl-dir=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-{{DocBook DSSSL StyleSheets-Version}}: Pass this to build the DocBook documentation. This path assumes that you followed the CBLFS instructions for installing the [[DocBook DSSSL StyleSheets]].
|}

== Extra ==

If you want to Fcron to log its messages, then you need to add it to /etc/syslog.conf.

<pre>
sed -i 's@# End /etc/syslog.conf@@' /etc/syslog.conf &&
cat >> /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF"
# log Fcron:
cron.* -/var/log/cron.log

# End /etc/syslog.conf
EOF
</pre>

The large spacing makes it so that it lines up with what's already in /etc/syslog.conf. The sed makes it so that the comment that delineates the end of the file still delineates the end of the file after our addition.

In order to bring our changes into effect, we need to reload the '''sysklogd''' daemon:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd reload

== Non-Multilib ==

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail --with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== Command Explanations ===

''--without-sendmail'': This stops Fcron from e-mailing you the results of the '''fcron'' script.

''--with-boot-install=no'': This prevents the installation of the package's bootscript.

== Multilib ==
'''''This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.'''''

=== 32Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== N32 ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== 64Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

== Configuring ==

=== Config Files ===

/etc/fcron.conf, /etc/fcron.allow, and /etc/fcron.deny

=== Configuration Information ===

You don't really need to do anything to configure Fcron, but '''fcrontab''' is used to write '''fcron''' scripts. Refer to the man pages for more information.

If [[Linux-PAM]] was installed, then two PAM configuration files were installed in /etc/pam.d. However, if there is no /etc/pam.d and you are using /etc/pam.conf instead, then corresponding configuration sections were added to your pam.conf file instead.

=== Boot Script ===

[[blfs-bootscripts]] has a boot script for Fcron. Install it as follows:

make install-fcron

= Contents =

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
! Installed Programs:
| fcron, fcrondyn, fcronsighup, fcrontab
|-valign="top"
! Installed Libraries:
| None
|-valign="top"
! Installed Directory:
| /usr/share/doc/fcron-{{Fcron Version}}, /var/spool/fcron
|}

=== Short Descriptions ===

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
! fcron
| is a daemon to execute scheduled tasks.
|-valign="top"
! fcrondyn
| is a user tool intended to interact with a running fcron daemon. It can, for instance, list user's jobs loaded by fcron, run one of them, renice a running job, send a signal to a running job, etc.
|-valign="top"
! fcronsighup
| is the program used by '''fcrontab''' to tell '''fcron''' it should reload its configuration.
|-valign="top"
! fcrontab
| is the program intended to install, edit, list and remove the tables used by '''fcron''' daemon. As '''fcron''' internally uses a non-human readable format (this is needed because '''fcron''' saves more informations than the user gives, for example the time and date of next execution), the user cannot directly edit their fcrontab (the one used by '''fcron''').
|}

Fcron

2007-07-06T12:08:23Z

84.0.39.209: /* Non-Multilib */

{| style="text-align: left; background-color: AliceBlue;"
|-valign="top"
! Download Source:
| ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/fcron/fcron-{{Fcron Version}}.src.tar.gz
|}

----

{{Package-Introduction|Fcron is a periodical command scheduler which aims at replacing [[Vixie Cron]], so it implements most of its functionalities. However, unlike [[Vixie Cron]], Fcron does not assume that your system is running either all the time or regularly. You can, for instance, tell Fcron to execute tasks every x hours y minutes of system up time or to do a job only once in a specified interval of time. Fcron has also many more features: you can also set a nice value to a job, run it depending on the system load average, and much more.|http://fcron.free.fr/}}

== Dependencies ==

=== Optional ===
* [[Linux-PAM]]
* [[SELinux]]

== Creating the fcron User/Group ==

We need to create the fcron group and the fcron user to run '''fcron''':

groupadd -g 24 fcron &&
useradd -c "Fcron User" -d /dev/null -u 24 -g fcron -s /bin/false fcron

== Note to DESTDIR Fans ==

This package uses DESTDIR and for the most part installs itself beautifully. It has one problem however. The problem is [[Linux-PAM]]-related, so if you haven't installed [[Linux-PAM]], then you can ignore the rest of this section.

The script that determines whether you are you using the /etc/pam.conf or the /etc/pam.d scheme for [[Linux-PAM]] configuration checks whether or not /etc/pam.d exists. If it does, then it assumes that you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme. If it doesn't, then it assumes that you're using the /etc/pam.conf scheme. This works just fine unless you're using DESTDIR. The script fails to take DESTDIR into account. As such, it goes looking for <DESTDIR>/etc/pam.d and naturally doesn't find it.

So, if you're using DESTDIR, then it will ''always'' decide that you're using the /etc/pam.conf scheme. If you ''are'' using that scheme, then everythings fine and you can ignore the rest of this section. However if you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme, then you need to run the following command prior to running '''make install''':

install -dv <DESTDIR>/etc/pam.d

This rather simple fix makes it so that Fcron's script thinks that you're using the /etc/pam.d scheme - which of course is what we want. With that, DESTDIR works just as you'd expect.

== Additional Configuration Options ==
{|
|--with-editor=PATH: Set the default editor for fcron. Without this flag, Fcron assumes '''vi'''.
|-
|--with-run-non-privileged=no: This is used if you want to run '''fcron''' as an unprivleged user. You need to look at [http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/faq.html Fcron's FAQ] if you want to do this.
|-
|--with-dsssl-dir=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-{{DocBook DSSSL StyleSheets-Version}}: Pass this to build the DocBook documentation. This path assumes that you followed the CBLFS instructions for installing the [[DocBook DSSSL StyleSheets]].
|}

== Extra ==

If you want to Fcron to log its messages, then you need to add it to /etc/syslog.conf.

<pre>
sed -i 's@# End /etc/syslog.conf@@' /etc/syslog.conf &&
cat >> /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF"
# log Fcron:
cron.* -/var/log/cron.log

# End /etc/syslog.conf
EOF
</pre>

The large spacing makes it so that it lines up with what's already in /etc/syslog.conf. The sed makes it so that the comment that delineates the end of the file still delineates the end of the file after our addition.

In order to bring our changes into effect, we need to reload the '''sysklogd''' daemon:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd reload

== Non-Multilib ==

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --without-sendmail --with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== Command Explanations ===

''--without-sendmail'': This stops Fcron from e-mailing you the results of the '''fcron'' script.

''--with-boot-install=no'': This prevents the installation of the package's bootscript.

== Multilib ==
'''''This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.'''''

=== 32Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== N32 ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

=== 64Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --without-sendmail \
--with-boot-install=no &&
make

Install the package:

make install

== Configuring ==

=== Config Files ===

/etc/fcron.conf, /etc/fcron.allow, and /etc/fcron.deny

=== Configuration Information ===

You don't really need to do anything to configure Fcron, but '''fcrontab''' is used to write '''fcron''' scripts. Refer to the man pages for more information.

If [[Linux-PAM]] was installed, then two PAM configuration files were installed in /etc/pam.d. However, if there is no /etc/pam.d and you are using /etc/pam.conf instead, then corresponding configuration sections were added to your pam.conf file instead.

=== Boot Script ===

[[blfs-bootscripts]] has a boot script for Fcron. Install it as follows:

make install-fcron

= Contents =

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
! Installed Programs:
| fcron, fcrondyn, fcronsighup, fcrontab
|-valign="top"
! Installed Libraries:
| None
|-valign="top"
! Installed Directory:
| /usr/share/doc/fcron-{{Fcron Version}}, /var/spool/fcron
|}

=== Short Descriptions ===

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
! fcron
| is a daemon to execute scheduled tasks.
|-valign="top"
! fcrondyn
| is a user tool intended to interact with a running fcron daemon. It can, for instance, list user's jobs loaded by fcron, run one of them, renice a running job, send a signal to a running job, etc.
|-valign="top"
! fcronsighup
| is the program used by '''fcrontab''' to tell '''fcron''' it should reload its configuration.
|-valign="top"
! fcrontab
| is the program intended to install, edit, list and remove the tables used by '''fcron''' daemon. As '''fcron''' internally uses a non-human readable format (this is needed because '''fcron''' saves more informations than the user gives, for example the time and date of next execution), the user cannot directly edit their fcrontab (the one used by '''fcron''').
|}

Logrotate

2007-07-06T12:03:46Z

84.0.39.209: /* Dependencies */

{| style="text-align: left; background-color: AliceBlue;"
|-
!Download Source:
|http://cross-lfs.org/~arowland/logrotate-{{Logrotate-Version}}.tar.gz
|}

----

{{Package-Introduction|Logrotate is a utility for automatically rotating log files. Logrotate use a configuration file to determine the conditions that must be satisfied to rotate a log file. Logrotate can be run manually, but would typically be run as a cron job.}}

== Dependencies ==
=== Required ===
* [[popt]]
=== Recommended ===
* [[Fcron]]

== Non-Multilib ==

Compile the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

== Multilib ==
'''''This package does not install any libraries so only one installation is needed.'''''

=== 32bit ===

Compile the package:

make CC="gcc ${BUILD32}"

Install the package:

make install

=== N32 ===

Compile the package:

make CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}"

Install the package:

make install

=== 64bit ===

Compile the package:

make CC="gcc ${BUILD64}"

Install the package:

make install

== Configuring ==

Create the logrotate configuration file.

cat >> /etc/logrotate.conf << EOF
# Begin of /etc/logrotate.conf

# Rotate log files weekly.
weekly

# Send mail to no one.
nomail

# If the log file is empty, it do not rotate it.
notifempty

# Number of backups that will be kept.
# This will keep the 2 newest backups only.
rotate 2

# Create new empty files after rotating the old ones
# This will create empty log files, with owner
# set to root, group set to root, and permissions 644.
create 0664 root root

# Compress the backups with gzip.
compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation info in this directory.
# Uncomment if you use RPM packages.
# include /etc/logrotate.d

# End of /etc/logrotate.conf
EOF

Add each of the log files in /var/log to /etc/logrotate.conf to be rotated if they exceed 100K in size:

for logfile in $(find /var/log/*.log -type f); do
echo $logfile {>> /etc/logrotate.conf
echo # If the log file is larger than 100kb, rotate it >> /etc/logrotate.conf
echo size=100k >> /etc/logrotate.conf
echo } >> /etc/logrotate.conf
echo "">> /etc/logrotate.conf
done

=== Cron Job ===

Assuming you have Fcron installed, create a cron job:

cat >> /etc/fcrontab << EOF
0 12 * * * 0 /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EOF

== Contents ==

{|style="text-align: left"
|-valign="top"
!Installed Directories:
|None
|-valign="top"
!Installed Programs:
|logrotate
|-valign="top"
!Installed Libraries:
|None
|-valign="top"
!Symlinks:
|None
|}

=== Short Descriptions ===

{| style="text-align: left;"
|-valign="top"
!logrotate
|is a utility that rotates and optionally compresses old log files.
|}