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Re: Irrating cron-messages on console



On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:26, Johann Spies wrote:
> I am busy installing Debian (sid) on a new PC.
> 
> I regularly get cron messages like the following on the console:
> 
> cron(pam_unix)[15946]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
> cron(pam_unix)[15945]: session  closed for user root
> cron(pam_unix)[15946]: session  closed for user root
> 
> What is causing this?

You've got syslogd configured to send certain messages to the console.

Look in /etc/syslog.conf

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