It looks like crond is being started with the default verbosity level of 8, and 0 is the 'most verbose'. So I doubt there is much that can be done for limiting it's output. At least outside of using '-L /dev/null' which would eliminate all logging, which probably isn't too desirable.
Sort of the same thing with dnsmasq. While there are options to enable even more logging, I don't see anything to reduce what we already get. -James On 07/23/2010 10:58 AM, Ionel Chila wrote: > Same thing for crond. I have something in crontab running every 5 minutes and > my > syslog is full of contd messages.... Wish there was a way to reduce or > eliminate > those crond messages... Thanks > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael<[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, July 23, 2010 2:57:35 AM > Subject: [Astlinux-users] Reducing verbosity of hostapd and dnsmasq > > Hello > > I have hostapd and dnsmasq running nicely on my machine (thanks to this > mailing list :-) ). However, they are much too verbose to my mind. > > I haven't found a good way to reduce verbosity so far. For hostapd it seems > to be hard coded in /etc/init.d/hostapd. If I increase the levels in this > file to "3" it seems to be o.k. for me. But I guess, it would be nicer to > have a user.conf variable for that, if it is possible. > > For dnsmasq I haven't found any way so far to reduce logging. So my log is > filling up with > > Jul 23 09:31:47 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:31:47 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:31:57 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:31:57 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:04 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:04 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:32:14 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:14 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:20 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:20 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:32:27 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:27 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:32:34 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:34 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:36 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:36 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:32:45 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:45 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:32:54 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:32:54 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:33:01 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:33:01 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:33:09 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:33:09 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:33:10 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:33:10 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:33:24 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:33:24 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB > Jul 23 09:33:30 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) > 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > Jul 23 09:33:30 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) 172.17.2.49 > 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 > > and so on and so forth. > > Does anybody know how to limit logging to error messages only? > > Btw. for the next astlinux version, it might be a good feature to have > configurable settings on the gui for logging information, if this is > possible. So, in the normal case, one would use just error logging. And only > if there are problems of some kind, one would switch to debug logging :-) > > Thanks > > Michael > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? 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