Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net> writes:
> Well, if you look at the line that's logged, you'll see that it's not
> coming from Exim at all, but from cron. So changing the way syslog
> handles the mail facility won't help.
Yes, that's why I tried adding "cron.!*" to the rule. But it seems
that it was overriden by "*.=info" rule, which was below the
"cron.!*".
> The cron logs come from the daemon facility. I have the following line
> is syslog.conf:
> *.notice |/dev/xconsole
The default rule looks like this:
,----[ syslog.conf ]
| daemon.*;mail.*;\
| news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
| *.=debug;*.=info;\
| *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
`----
It seems that if I simplify it to the extent you propose, I might lose
some information that I'd rather see. I *ony* wanted to get rid of cron
logging its normal activities.
In case anyone was following, changing the above to the following
solved my problem.
,----[ syslog.conf ]
| daemon.*;mail.!*;\
| news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
| *.=debug;*.=info;\
| cron.!info;\
| *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
`----
Cheers,
--
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.
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