Thanks for all the replies. They have been helpful. I just manually ran /etc/cron.daily/logrotate and that rotated (compressed) my logs. So for some funny reason I think that cron has stopped running the above command even though it is in /etc/cron.daily/ Where can I find the instructions for cron to run the cron.daily commands? My etc/crontab file contains the following commands: 59 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 14 4 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 29 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 44 4 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly I have other commands in crontab that run daily so I know that etc/crontab is running. Sorry for being a newbie ;-) Regards, Dan