How to stop crond logging to syslog?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Feb 25 18:49:41 UTC 2005


On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:27:52PM -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
> > 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
[...]
> I'd take a closer look at /etc/syslog.conf, mine has the following lines in 
> it.
> # Log cron stuff
> cron.*                                                  /var/log/cron

Yeah, except I don't think this is coming from cron directly -- it's from
pam_unix, as cron switches users.

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