Re: Lots of crond syslog messages...why?

From: Alexander Dalloz (ad+lists_at_uni-x.org)
Date: 05/30/05

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    To: gdoris@rogers.com, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 18:26:08 +0200

    Am Mo, den 30.05.2005 schrieb Gerry Doris um 17:30:

    > Thanks for your reply. In hind sight I see that the messages weren't
    > errors but merely pam notices that root had started a process and then
    > that process had ended. As pointed out in the link you provided this is
    > new behaviour from the cron package used in FC2.

    The vixie-cron introduced with FC3 supports logging through PAM.

    > I was able to track these processes back to tasks being kicked off every
    > 5mins in cron. Matthew Miller suggested removing the pam session line for
    > cron but that didn't work for me. I ended up removing auth notifications
    > in syslog.conf. I'm not really happy with this solution but will use it
    > until I can figure out something better.

    Better not to suppress auth completely.

    Change /etc/syslog.conf:

    #*.info;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none;cron.none
    /var/log/messages
    *.info;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;auth.!=info
    /var/log/messages
     
    #The auth.info messages into a different log file.
    auth.info
    /var/log/auth.info

    service syslog restart

    You then have a separate log file with the cron caused auth loggings.

    Alexander 

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