Re: Re(2): iTools Logging, cron

Hi Bill,

If you don't want to see cron message in system.log, then you need to manually configure

/etc/syslog.conf to exclude logging for cron jobs.

i.e.

CRON.*

/dev/null

You need to restart syslogd for the setting to take place.

regards,

Eric

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 04:43 PM, Bill Staudenheimer wrote:

iTools System Updates have been applied, through Q30020404, then

sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/Cron/Cron stop

sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/Cron/Cron start

With the added "-update > /dev/null 2>&1"

since there is no stdout or stderr, cron does not email anything,

but there is still an entry each time in /var/log/system.log, such as:

Apr 30 16:40:00 ripples CRON[1349]: (www) CMD (/Library/Tenon/WebLog/cgi-

bin/awstats.pl

-config=www.staudenheimer.com

-logfile=/Library/Tenon/WebServer/Logs/www.staudenheimer.com.access_log

-update > /dev/null 2>&1)

Bill

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William L. Staudenheimer bstaud@xxxxxxxxx

System Guides 530-272-4892 www.sysgu.com

Hi Bill,

Did you run the System Updates? System Updates (Q30020403) fixes this

problem by silence awstats warning message.

Therefore, if you installed the patch, then you don't need to give www

user a login to receive email.

If you already ran the update, but the messages are still appearing,

then check your cron jobs.

At the end of each cron job, it would say "-update", and change that to

"-update > /dev/null 2>&1".

Hope this helps.

regards,

Eric

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Bill Staudenheimer wrote:

After installing iTools 7.0:

1) Cron is running for www-owner, and awstats wants to email to www

but there is no login or user directory for www to read the emails

Workaround:

    sudo mail -f /var/mail/www

Otherwise www has to have a login to read the emails.

    1) Should the www user be given a login?

    2) Should some config assign the www mail to some other user?

2) Cron for www makes a /var/log/system.log entry every 10 minutes for

every virtual host that awstats.pl is logging.

Sheesh. Clutter.

Workarounds, I am considering, in ascending order of severity:

    1) Edit (what file?) for cron to run that www less often.

    2) Delete the www file, /var/spool/cron/www

    3) Kill cron altogether

Can I otherwise make awstats shut up?

Bill

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William L. Staudenheimer                   bstaud@xxxxxxxxx

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Hi Bill,

Did you run the System Updates? System Updates (Q30020403) fixes this

problem by silence awstats warning message.

Therefore, if you installed the patch, then you don't need to give www

user a login to receive email.

If you already ran the update, but the messages are still appearing, then

check your cron jobs.

At the end of each cron job, it would say "-update", and change that to

"-update > /dev/null 2>&1".

Hope this helps.

regards,

Eric

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Bill Staudenheimer wrote:

After installing iTools 7.0:

1) Cron is running for www-owner, and awstats wants to email to www

but there is no login or user directory for www to read the emails

Workaround:

   sudo mail -f /var/mail/www

Otherwise www has to have a login to read the emails.

   1) Should the www user be given a login?

   2) Should some config assign the www mail to some other user?

2) Cron for www makes a /var/log/system.log entry every 10 minutes for

every virtual host that awstats.pl is logging.

Sheesh. Clutter.

Workarounds, I am considering, in ascending order of severity:

   1) Edit (what file?) for cron to run that www less often.

   2) Delete the www file, /var/spool/cron/www

   3) Kill cron altogether

Can I otherwise make awstats shut up?

Bill

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William L. Staudenheimer                   bstaud@xxxxxxxxx

System Guides           530-272-4892          www.sysgu.com

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