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On 2/2/25 04:12, Paul Brindusa wrote:
> Good afternoon Peter,
> 
> I had the exact same query as Junwang proposed.
> 
> Was mega upset that I could not get the cronjobs to work, and from what 
> I can tell from @Laurenz's  response above we have the names of the logs 
> customised to posgtres-%d-%m-%y. Removing the logs after a week or month 
> does not since our retention policy is 6 months.
> 
> The cron job was set from root and it did not remove the logs/

What OS and version of same?

Do you get an error message from cron?

Do you have MAILTO set up in cron?


> 
> On 02/02/2025 08:26, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>> On 2025-01-28 13:40:42 +0000, Paul Brindusa wrote:
>>> @Junwang apologies, I should have mentioned that  we've tried setting 
>>> up a
>>> crontab and it has not worked.
>> Then you have a cron problem and not a postgresql problem.
>>
>> What that problem is is impossible to say with the information you have
>> given us. What was the exact crontab entry, and what did it do? (When
>> describing a problem, always use positives, not negatives. "it did not
>> work" is particularly useless, since there are a gazillion ways in which
>> something could not do what you expected.)
>>
>>> Have you got something similar working?
>> Yes. Cleaning up stuff is probably one of the most frequent uses of
>> cron.
>>
>>          hp
>>
> 
> 

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