[CentOS] Strangest thing (crond every 5 min.)

Thu Apr 14 20:07:25 UTC 2005
Mário Gamito <lists at tuxdoit.com>

Hi Johnny,

Thank you for your precious tip.

Warm Regards,
Mário Gamito

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> You can at least strip this out to another file, so you can get it out of
> /var/log/messages and somewhere else.
> 
> Edit the file /etc/syslog.conf and find the line:
> 
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none      /var/log/messages
> 
> Change it to:
> 
> *.info;auth.none;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none      /var/log/messages
> 
> then add these lines:
> 
> # Strip out auth info
> auth.*                                                  /var/log/auth
> 
> Save the file....
> 
> This will make it so that there is a seperate file that is /var/log/auth
> .. which will contain all auth log info
> 
> Next, you need to make sure that log file ( /var/log/auth ) is rotated
> like all the other syslog logs.  Edit the file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and
> add /var/log/auth to the top line and save the file.
> 
> Now restart syslog with the command:
> 
> /etc/init.d/syslog restart
> 
>