Re: Controlling Cron Logging

From: Bob K (melange@yip.org)
Date: 01/28/02 

Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:27:45 -0500
From: Bob K <melange@yip.org>
To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:20:35AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I have a syslog file which is set up to log as follows:
>
> *.info;auth.info;mail.warning /var/log/syslog
>
> That appears to work well. Now, I wanted to refine
> things a bit and not see cron logging there so I uncommented the
> line in /etc/syslog.conf which now looks like:
>
> cron.* /var/log/cron
>
> That now sends the cron messages to the file
> /var/log/cron like it should. Is there any way I can cause the
> cron messages to stop going to syslog while leaving it wide open
> for anything but cron?

Changing this line:

> *.info;auth.info;mail.warning /var/log/syslog

so it looks like this:

> *.info;auth.info;mail.warning;cron.none /var/log/syslog

should, in theory, have the effect you seek. 

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