Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Alan McKinnon writes:

> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:25 on Saturday 21 August 2010, Alex
> Schuster did opine thusly:

> > There is a nolog option for fcrontab, but I still get this output
> > every minute:
> That will tell fcron not to log stuff.
> It will not tell other apps to not stuff

Right. But I did not know that there are more things involved than cron 
itself and the command I am calling. This PAM stuff is new to me, but 
maybe I just never noticed it before in my logs. It's no problem when it's 
not coming every minute.

> > Aug 21 15:10:06 [fcron] pam_unix(fcron:session): session opened for
> > user root by (uid=0) Aug 21 15:10:08 [fcron]
> > pam_unix(fcron:session): session closed for user root
> > 
> > Hmmm... could it be that these entries do not come from fcron itself,
> > but from PAM?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Configure your syslogger to devnull these specific entries.
> All three common sysloggers (syslogd,syslog-ng,rsyslog) all come with
> extensive documentation on how to do this.

Hmm, okay. I think there is no perfect solution. When I disable logging of 
this PAM stuff, I can only disable it completely, but what if I want to 
keep the logging from other jobs that are not run that often? Although for 
this case I can use the direct logging of fcron (without nolog), so this 
is quite academic. Can anybody still follow me? But thanks for the 
clarification.

Meanwhile, I have the script running in /etc/conf.d/local.start, so I have 
no syslog output at all and I also can have more updates than only once 
per minute.

	Wonko