Friday, 26 August 2011

cronlog - Debian Squeeze

The other day i installed debian squeeze as a webserver, but one of the things that drove me nuts, was the fact there wasn't a cronlog, it appears that cron dumps all messages into the generic log /var/log/messages. I didn't want that, i wanted to view the cronlog as it's own seperate file. Nothing obvious on the internet, but trawling through various files i finally found it.

vi /etc/rsyslog.conf

Look for the following line and remove the comment [#]

#cron.* /var/log/cron.log

restart the rsyslog

/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart

You now have a cronlog at /var/log/cronlog

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