Irwin, Doug wrote: > I have set up /etc/syslog.conf to exclude logging cron messages but > still seem to be getting them. > > In syslogd I have tried the following: > *.*;cron.none /var/log/messages
That one should be enough. [snip] > What is getting logged is soemthing along the lines of this: > Mar 23 16:52:00 DOUG /USR/SBIN/CRON : PID 4844 : (doug) CMD -----------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ My guess: the "facility" is not recognized by syslogd, that means syslogd is looking for "cron" and instead it finds that ugly "/USR/SBIN/CRON". > (/usr/bin/date >> /date.log) > > I've had no luck filtering it out so far. > > I have spent several days researching cron and syslogd (both for Cygwin > and Linux) on the net. While there's a lot of very useful information I > haven't been able to resolve this specific issue. I'm not trying to do what you want, I just want my logs to look normal and see them using multitail (which colorizes the output among other things) so I changed the source code to show just "cron" on those log lines, it's in cron.c line 67, just change argv[0] with "cron". After compiling and installing the changed version I'm getting this ugly message: Apr 1 18:33:31 b kernel: cron[2812]: segfault at 004060C2 rip 00402986 rsp 0022E850 error 6 But cron is working normally, so it may be just a non related problem (possibly due to using a Cygwin snapshot because I've seen a couple of these before). -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
