Sysstat drops a message in /var/log/messages every 10 minutes... how to stop this?
 

Hi all thanks for taking the time to read my message!

My /var/log/messages file is totally filled with messages from sysstat (every 10 minutes): for example:

crond(pam_unix)[13066]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)

This happens because /etc/cron.d/sysstat is set for it to run every 10 minutes :

*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1

Ok, that's cool, I want it to run every 10 minutes, but NOT log this in the /var/log/messages file, because this logfile is so full of these messages it gets really hard to find "other" messages which might be important, when I review the logfiles...

Any hints on how to run the program every 10 minutes and not log it in /var/log/messages ?

Thanks a lot!

//Zan

Hi zan_messengrr,


Welcome to linuxquestions.org.


Don't use vi / less to read the messages in var log . use grep or tail for it so that you can find the relevent messages that you need.


Also it is cron which is making log entries, right now I am not sure how to stop it, but will try to find it out.



Aniruddha

add cron.none to the syslog.conf line for your logfile to totally suppress messages from crond - like this:

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages

This will suppress ALL syslog messages from cron - you may want to try cron.warning so that you'll get warning messages or higher priority.