Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:43:23 -0800 From: Daniel Brown <djb@unixan.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu Subject: Re: Controlling Cron Logging Message-ID: <20020128094323.5e3a6768.djb@unixan.com> In-Reply-To: <20020128102745.J454@yip.org> References: <200201281520.g0SFKZM99969@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <20020128102745.J454@yip.org>
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It may not be wise to entirely remove cron from /var/log/syslog. If
something serious occurs and cron complains about it, generally it
should still be logged to /var/log/syslog so it will not be overlooked.
Try:
*.info;auth.info;mail.warning;cron.warning /var/log/syslog
-Daniel
------------ Quoted Message ------------
Date...: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:27:45 -0500
From...: Bob K <melange@yip.org>
To.....: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Controlling Cron Logging
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.
--
Bob <melange@yip.org> | Please don't feed the sock puppet.
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