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AugustineF
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 Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 2:29 am Post subject: A question about syslog-ng |
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My /var/log/messages gets lots of messages from the CRON job that runs every minute. Basically all this cron job does is to check if any corn.hourly , cron.daily etc are supposed to be run.
I tried the sample syslog-ng.conf mentioned in the /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng.
It is supposed to seperate all cron messages in /var/log/cron.
But I get cron messages in all the files .
Can someone help me , I want all cron messages to go to /var/log/cron and not any file.
Below is my /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
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options {
long_hostnames(off);
sync(0);
# The default action of syslog-ng 1.6.0 is to log a STATS line
# to the file every 10 minutes. That's pretty ugly after a while.
# Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of
# how many messages syslog-ng missed (0).
#stats(43200);
stats(0);
};
source src { unix-stream("/dev/log"); internal(); pipe("/proc/kmsg"); };
destination authlog { file("/var/log/auth.log"); };
destination syslog { file("/var/log/syslog"); };
destination cron { file("/var/log/cron.log"); };
destination daemon { file("/var/log/daemon.log"); };
destination kern { file("/var/log/kern.log"); };
destination lpr { file("/var/log/lpr.log"); };
destination user { file("/var/log/user.log"); };
destination uucp { file("/var/log/uucp.log"); };
destination ppp { file("/var/log/ppp.log"); };
destination mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); };
destination mailinfo { file("/var/log/mail.info"); };
destination mailwarn { file("/var/log/mail.warn"); };
destination mailerr { file("/var/log/mail.err"); };
destination newscrit { file("/var/log/news/news.crit"); };
destination newserr { file("/var/log/news/news.err"); };
destination newsnotice { file("/var/log/news/news.notice"); };
destination debug { file("/var/log/debug"); };
destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
destination console { usertty("root"); };
# By default messages are logged to tty12...
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
# ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole
# you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12
# and uncomment the line below.
#destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };
destination xconsole { pipe("/dev/xconsole"); };
filter f_auth { facility(auth); };
filter f_authpriv { facility(auth, authpriv); };
filter f_syslog { not facility(authpriv, mail); };
filter f_cron { facility(cron); };
filter f_daemon { facility(daemon); };
filter f_kern { facility(kern); };
filter f_lpr { facility(lpr); };
filter f_mail { facility(mail); };
filter f_user { facility(user); };
filter f_uucp { facility(cron); };
filter f_ppp { facility(local2); };
filter f_news { facility(news); };
filter f_debug { not facility(auth, authpriv, news, mail); };
filter f_messages { level(info..warn)
and not facility(auth, authpriv, mail, news); };
filter f_emergency { level(emerg); };
filter f_info { level(info); };
filter f_notice { level(notice); };
filter f_warn { level(warn); };
filter f_crit { level(crit); };
filter f_err { level(err); };
log { source(src); filter(f_authpriv); destination(authlog); };
log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(syslog); };
log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(cron); };
log { source(src); filter(f_daemon); destination(daemon); };
log { source(src); filter(f_kern); destination(kern); };
log { source(src); filter(f_lpr); destination(lpr); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); destination(mail); };
log { source(src); filter(f_user); destination(user); };
log { source(src); filter(f_uucp); destination(uucp); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_info); destination(mailinfo); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_warn); destination(mailwarn); };
log { source(src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_err); destination(mailerr); };
log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_crit); destination(newscrit); };
log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_err); destination(newserr); };
log { source(src); filter(f_news); filter(f_notice); destination(newsnotice); };
log { source(src); filter(f_debug); destination(debug); };
log { source(src); filter(f_messages); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); filter(f_emergency); destination(console); };
log { source(src); filter(f_ppp); destination(ppp); };
#log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
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jbc28
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Joined: 07 Jan 2003
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Location: Edinburgh
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:42 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
if you add "and not facility(cron)" to any filter then wherever the output it filters goes won't contain cron messages. Oh and you'll need to restart cron after changing the config file (I wish I'd rembered before wasting HOURS confusedly editing an unread config file  )
Hope this helps,
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AugustineF
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| that did the trick. thanks |
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