[CentOS] how to disable lots of auditd messages?

Tue Jun 2 12:41:12 UTC 2009
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>

MontyRee wrote:
> hello all.
>  
> My system is centos 5.x and there is no module related auditd
> there is no process(daemon) related auditd and selinux definately disabled.
>  
> But I can see lots of auditd messages like below. 
>  
> Oct 20 02:01:01 linux kernel: type=1106 audit(1224435661.064:65210): user pid=25860 uid=0 auid=0 msg='PAM: session close acct="root" : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
> 
>  
> Is there any way to disable this messages?

not sure if this is a good thing to do, but you can remove the audit 
package, and/or add audit=0 as a kernel option in grub.conf.