Log Suppression

[Fraser Campbell]

Gregory D Hough wrote:

> Is there anyway to eliminate oodles of these from appearing in 
> /var/log/messages?
> 
> Aug 11 08:30:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[16278]: session opened for 
> user root by (uid=0)

You need to modify /etc/syslog.conf, probably you are logging all cron 
messages (cron.*).  You could change that so that you're not logging all 
messages (you probably want at least cron.warn and cron.crit).

Look at syslogd man page - and other related manpages.

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