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From: Paul Brindusa <[email protected]>
To: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Log retention query
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:15:57 +0000
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Good afternoon,

Apologies for coming back to you so late.

Again I want to thank everyone for all the help provided regarding this.
The main culprit was the cron job and trying to run it as root.
Main thing is i've learned a lot from your answers about the logs.
Thank you again.


On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2/2/25 12:04, Paul Brindusa wrote:
> > I am defo sure that my syntax was fine.
> >
> > I have tried the same syntax to remove the logs manually from the
> > folder  and it worked perfectly.
> >
> > The cronjob was set from root, so I am assuming it has the right
> > privileges over the folder in cause.
> >
>
> Did you use the correct directory in the cron command?
>
> >
> > @ Adrian the cluster runs on Rocky9
>
> What repo are you using to install Postgres from?
>
> >
> > There is no error from cron that is the weird bit as well.
> >
> > I do not have MAILTO set up on cron.
>
> I would do that, then you should get the errors.
>
> You could also look in the system log at the time the cron job was
> executed to see if it recorded the error.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> [email protected]
>
>

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Kind Regards,
Paul Brindusa
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