Logrotate not installed as a systemd service

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I have installed via apt logrotate.

However I don't see any systemd service.

Does this requires a separate process for setting up logrotate as a systemd service?

root@myserver:~# apt install -y logrotate
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
logrotate is already the newest version (3.11.0-0.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.
root@myserver:~# systemctl list-unit-files | grep -i logro

Working on Debian 9

Best Answer

The logrotate package in Debian 9 only supported cron – dpkg -L logrotate should show a file in /etc/cron.*.

In general, Debian 9 only had partial systemd support.

Meanwhile, the same package in Debian 11 does install a systemd .timer unit for the scheduled task (logrotate.timer, which periodically starts logrotate.service).

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