something writing messages to log every minute
 

I set up a minimal Linux on an old pc to use as a printsever. It works fine for that purpose. But I looked in the log and noticed that something is writing messages to it about every minute inexplicably. The message is:

<date time> printserver last message repeated 4 times

Over and over this line, with the time advanced an average of one minute and one second each time. If I scan up to the first message that is different, it says:

<date time> printserver /USR/SBIN/CRON[8632]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
<date time> printserver lpd[13322]: connection from 127.0.0.1

Then it starts repeating the "last message repeated x times" message , line after line.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here and how I can stop it? This log is going to get very big in time otherwise.

Thanks.

Looks like some sort of cron job for your lpd daemon. Try looking at your cron jobs that are setup and disable it. Not totally for sure though.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

You should edit your /etc/syslog.conf and add the line

cron.* /var/log/cron


It will cause all crond messages to go to /var/log/cron and not blast your
/var/log/messages