AIX Proper configuration of cronlog.conf

[Todd Lundstedt]

AIX, different versions

I have found documentation on IBM site on the proper configuration of the /etc/cronlog.conf file, and I have set it up almost identical to one of their examples.  I restarted cron (killed the process, it restarted automatically), and nothing happened.  I waited over night and the cron log file /var/adm/cron/log still did not get trimmed and archived.

I couldn’t find any indication on how often cron checks the log file size, and performs the maintenance.

Does anyone know what, if anything, I am doing wrong?

/etc/cronlog.conf —

Code:

logfile=/var/adm/cron/log
size=1m
rotate=4
archive=/tmp/cronlog
compress

Thanks in advance

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