[ale] CRON Logging

[Joe Steele]

Oops.  Forgot to mention that you must modify another line in 
/etc/syslog.conf which sends entries to /var/log/messages.  You 
probably have a line that looks something like:

*.info;lpr.notice;mail.none;authpriv.none         /var/log/messages

You need to add "cron.none;" at the beginning, thusly:

cron.none;*.info;lpr.notice;mail.none;authpriv.none           /var/log/messages

Also, I should correct myself regarding logrotate.  The script 
should send a HUP signal to syslogd, not to crond:

/var/log/cron {
    postrotate
        /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
    endscript
}

If you have a "/etc/logrotate.d/syslog", then it would probably be more 
logical to add the script there, rather than creating /etc/logrotate.d/cron.


My errors stem from the fact that the cron that I use (RedHat based) 
was built to log messages using its own log file rather than through syslogd.


--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Robert Heaven [SMTP:robertheaven at mediaone.net]
Sent:	Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:05 AM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	Re: [ale] CRON Logging

Well, this started logging cron messages to the /var/log/cron log file.
Unfortunately, cron is now logging it's messages in both /var/log/cron and
/var/log/messages. The objective was to stop logging to /var/log/messages.


> Try adding the following line at the top of /etc/syslog.conf:
>
> cron.*   /var/log/cron
>
> If you are using logrotate (and depending on its configuration), you might
> also want to create a file /etc/logrotate.d/cron containing the following:
>
> /var/log/cron {
>     postrotate
>         /usr/bin/killall -HUP crond
>     endscript
> }
>
> --Joe
>>
>> Is there a way to make cron send it's log messages to something other
than
>> /var/log/messages? I keep looking for some kind of config file but can't
find
>> it.
>> --

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