Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:27:45 -0500 From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Controlling Cron Logging Message-ID: <20020128102745.J454@yip.org> In-Reply-To: <200201281520.g0SFKZM99969@dc.cis.okstate.edu>; from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu on Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:20:35AM -0600 References: <200201281520.g0SFKZM99969@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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