severity 401910 wishlist
reassign 401910 cron
merge 401910 144710
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* David Liontooth
> It's not an error - it's just he command echoed, telling syslog it was
> run. It's perfectly orderly, I just want to silence it, as it provides
> no relevant information.
>
> I've installed munin-node on seven machines and get the same messages
> in syslog for all of them (below). The configuration on these differ a
> fair amount.
>
> I tried to silence it with >/dev/null 2>&1 but that didn't do the
> trick, so I just commented out the line.
>
> This may still just be a cron configuration issue that munin simply
> triggers.
Ah. Yes, these messages are cron simply logging that it started the
job. The fact that the job produces no output doesn't stop cron from
logging that, and as far as I know there is no way to tell cron not to
log for each time it invokes a job. This isn't specific to Munin,
you'll see similar messages when other cron jobs are run (I see the
"run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly" job being logged in your excerpt,
for instance).
There is an open bug report in the cron package, calling for this
exact functionality. If it is added I shall surely update the Munin
package to make use of it, but that's impossible right now. For that
reason I'm merging your bug report with this one now.
You can filter out the messages from cron in /etc/syslog.conf, though.
If you change the one that directs messages to /var/log/syslog to read
*.*;cron,auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
no cron-related messages will be logged there (which includes all the
non-munin-related messages, which may or may not be acceptable to you).
You can instead, optionally, direct these messages to a separate log
file with a line such as
cron.* /var/log/cron.log
> I get a lot of street cred from my colleagues when showing them munin;
> they somehow imagine I put all of this information together myself ;-)
:-)
> Dec 7 08:50:01 siena /USR/SBIN/CRON[13790]: (root) CMD (if [ -x
> /etc/munin/plugins/apt_all ]; then /etc/munin/plugins/apt_all update
> 7200 12 >/dev/null; elif [ -x /etc/munin/plugins/apt ]; then
> /etc/munin/plugins/apt update 7200 12 >/dev/null; fi)
> [...]
Regards
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Tore Anderson
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