On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:53:17PM +0530, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:
>
> Also, how can I turn off the logging into the /var/log/cron file by the
> crond daemon ? (I have crond running the "sync" command every minute in
> order to avoid loss of data in case of a power failure and you can imagine
> the amount of garbage that gets accumulated in the cron log :-( !!)
The cron package can be compiled to use syslog(3) or write to a file.
On RH Linux, it looks like it uses the file. However, if you recompile
cron to use syslog, then you can use /etc/syslog.conf to control what
happens to the log.
-Arun
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