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Alice Ferrazzi posted on Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:38:42 +0900 as excerpted: |
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> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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>> rc-update del vixie-cron default |
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>> /etc/init.d/vixie-cron stop |
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>> emerge -C vixie-cron |
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>> emerge cronie |
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>> rc-update add cronie default |
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>> /etc/init.d/cronie start |
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> I Just did the same, is simple and "drop-in" |
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I did it too, a few days ago. |
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TL;DR: Drop-in but for the log-spamming. =:^( |
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While cronie itself was simple and drop-in for vixie-cron, it DID start |
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rather severely log-spamming, IIRC four log-lines every 10 minutes when |
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the run-crons ran. As a result, while the functionality was drop-in |
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replacement, for the system as a whole it wasn't purely a drop-in |
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replacement, as I had to adjust logging somewhat to kill the spamming. |
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An update tweak to my syslog-ng.conf category-cron filter later, and I |
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was down to a single log entry in the general messages log every ten |
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minutes, the other three diverted to my separate cron log. |
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The remaining one was an audit entry (type=1006) output by the kernel. |
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Of course I could filter that out or divert it to the cron log too, but |
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first I needed to know the significance. After all, it's not often I get |
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the kernel outputting audit entries. |
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A bit of googling later, I found that the type 1006 audit entries I was |
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getting were AUDIT_LOGIN related, due to the way cron changes user to run |
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its various programmed entries. Of course one can turn off the kernel's |
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corresponding audit options, but that affects other things too. |
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Meanwhile, the google turned up some RHEL/Fedora complaints about |
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something similar. Apparently in this case the kernel defaults to log- |
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spamming even if audit logging is generally deactivated. I could try |
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installing an audit tool and configure it to turn that off specifically, |
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but meh, just set a syslog filter for it; the effect is the same either |
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way. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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