From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 28 7:27:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (pi.yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E0E37B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:27:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g0SFRjZ54673; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:27:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:27:45 -0500 From: Bob K To: Martin McCormick Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Controlling Cron Logging Message-ID: <20020128102745.J454@yip.org> References: <200201281520.g0SFKZM99969@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 | 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