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Date:      Tue, 7 Aug 2001 21:00:51 -0400
From:      "Jerry Bell" <jerry@stelesys.com>
To:        "vijay singh" <vijay@IPRG.nokia.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cron and syslog
Message-ID:  <001601c11fa5$92632300$0a01a8c0@jbell>
References:  <3B7020A5.8391634C@iprg.nokia.com>

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Append:
2>&1 >/dev/null
to the end of the lines you want to discard the output from.  That redirects
stderr to stdout and both to /dev/null instead of to an email.

Jerry
http://www.syslog.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "vijay singh" <vijay@IPRG.nokia.com>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: cron and syslog


> Hello, everytime cron runs a job it posts a message to syslog. Is it
> possible to selectively shut this off for some very frequently run jobs?
> It might be possible to do this by setting the message log level lower
> for such jobs, and then filtering them off using syslog.conf but I am
> not sure how to do this. Any help would be appreciated. Kindly cc me as
> I am not on this list.
>
> regards
> vijay
>
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