Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

G T Smith wrote:
> > cron logs via syslog; there should be log records about the start of
> > each job in /var/log/messages. The exception is when your crontab line
> > starts with "-" (a hyphen), then job start logging is turned off. (In
>
> Oddly this is not happening on my system, the hyphen is there but job
> start logging is still being performed.

Does

        grep '/usr/sbin/cron.*run-crons' /var/log/messages

really shows that cron logs each start of run-crons?
Which SUSE version is this?

> The run-crons script explicitly
> sends information to the syslog daemon overriding the above setting, but
> successful job reporting is controlled by the $SYSLOG_ON_NO_ERROR
> variable.

This variable does not exist in 10.0, which Mohamed uses. There, 
run-crons only logs errors (with logger).

> It looks as
> if the majority of the standard SuSE scripts explicitly log their status.

I have to admit that I don't understand that sentence. At my 10.0 
installation, execution of the cron.daily scripts is _not_ logged. 
All other cron jobs are logged by cron, and not by the scripts 
themselves. Is this different in your SUSE installation?

        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
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