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Redirect crond(pam_unix) syslog messages

If you see too many of these lines:

root@s1 trungson]# tail /var/log/messages
Oct 16 12:36:01 s1 crond(pam_unix)[21821]: session closed for user root

Here is how to redirect it to a more appropriate place

[root@s1 trungson]# more /etc/syslog.conf
...
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;auth.!=info    /var/log/messages
...
# Log cron stuff, add auth.info to redirect cron logging
cron.*;auth.info              /var/log/cron

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One response to “Redirect crond(pam_unix) syslog messages”

  1. Andreas Wacker Avatar
    Andreas Wacker

    very nice.
    was looking for exactly this.

    1 short blog entry can be so much more valuable than 15 pages of forums discussions like “try this, that and the other. I have not tried this myself”.

    While I am waiting the 5 minutes for cron to wake up I am browsing your blog.

    …

    nice blog.

    and,yes, of course the auth.info messages go now into /var/log/cron

    thanks a bunch!

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