https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822424 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822424#c0 Summary: cron is flooding /var/log/messages Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: wvvelzen@gmail.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 Following messages are in /var/log/messages every 15 minutes: 2013-05-30T16:15:01.462234+02:00 vmhost /usr/sbin/cron[13925]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) 2013-05-30T16:15:01.493598+02:00 vmhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[13925]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root This is probably triggered by the following line in /etc/crontab: # # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly # -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1 It started after I did a 'zypper up' followed by a reboot on May 16th. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.