How to stop crond logging to syslog?

[Edwin Dicker]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jess Anderson" <anderson at wisc.edu>
To: "Fedora Core Mailing List" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, 25 February, 2005 18:56
Subject: How to stop crond logging to syslog?


> Every time cron wakes up, it logs authentication (PAM)
> actions to syslog. Not especially useful for a one-user
> (plus root) system, these messages mostly fill up space:
>
> Feb 25 11:21:01 seth crond(pam_unix)[4381]: session opened for user 
> anderson by (uid=0)
> Feb 25 11:21:02 seth crond(pam_unix)[4381]: session closed for user 
> anderson
> Feb 25 11:25:01 seth crond(pam_unix)[4396]: session opened for user root 
> by (uid=0)
> Feb 25 11:25:01 seth crond(pam_unix)[4396]: session closed for user root
> Feb 25 11:27:01 seth crond(pam_unix)[4454]: session opened for user 
> anderson by (uid=0)
> Feb 25 11:27:02 seth crond(pam_unix)[4454]: session closed for user 
> anderson
> Feb 25 11:30:01 seth crond(pam_unix)[4497]: session opened for user root 
> by (uid=0)
> Feb 25 11:30:01 seth crond(pam_unix)[4500]: session opened for user root 
> by (uid=0)
> Feb 25 11:30:01 seth crond(pam_unix)[4497]: session closed for user root
> Feb 25 11:30:01 seth crond(pam_unix)[4500]: session closed for user root
>
> As far as I can see this logging is compiled in, rather than
> being controlled by /etc/syslog.conf. Of maybe (entirely
> possible) I'm confused. The man pages don't mention options
> or other alternatives, apparently.
>
> Suggestions welcome.

I have found a 'solution'

I disabled the session line in /etc/pam.d/crond
this line : session    required  /lib/security/$ISA/pam_stack.so 
service=system-auth
to this line : #session    required  /lib/security/$ISA/pam_stack.so 
service=system-auth

now i dont have any crond(pam_unix) messages anymore in my messages file, 
but i dont know if might be missing something important now, guess not 
because in the past I never saw them either :)


Edwin