Re: [SLUG] Silent CRON

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, zenn wrote:
>My syslog.conf looks like this...
>Shouldn't cron log to /var/log/cron ?
>Well, it does but it also logs to /var/log/messages 
>Why ?

Because that's what it's told to do.  Regardez:

># Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
># Don't log private authentication messages!
>*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none                   /var/log/messages

Let me repeat: "Log *ANYTHING* of level info or higher" to /var/log/messages

AFAICT, the manpage (man syslog.conf) gives no indication that you can
specify *.info except cron.

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