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Apparently, though unproven, at 15:25 on Saturday 21 August 2010, Alex |
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Schuster did opine thusly: |
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> Hi there! |
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> I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a little |
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> script that gives me this output: |
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> sda: standby |
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> sdb: standby |
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> sdc: active/idle 32°C |
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> sdd: active/idle 37°C |
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> This script is called every minute via an fcron entry, output goes into a |
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> log file, and I use the file monitor plasmoid to watch this log file in |
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> KDE. |
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> It's working fine, but also monitor my syslog in another file monitor |
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> plamoid, and now I get lots of these entries: |
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> Aug 21 14:21:06 [fcron] pam_unix(fcron:session): session opened for user |
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> root by (uid=0) Aug 21 14:21:06 [fcron] Job /usr/local/sbin/hdstate >> |
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> /var/log/hdstate started for user root (pid 24483) Aug 21 14:21:08 [fcron] |
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> Job /usr/local/sbin/hdstate >> /var/log/hdstate completed Aug 21 14:21:08 |
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> [fcron] pam_unix(fcron:session): session closed for user root |
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> There is a nolog option for fcrontab, but I still get this output every |
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> minute: |
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That will tell fcron not to log stuff. |
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It will not tell other apps to not stuff |
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> Aug 21 15:10:06 [fcron] pam_unix(fcron:session): session opened for user |
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> root by (uid=0) Aug 21 15:10:08 [fcron] pam_unix(fcron:session): session |
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> closed for user root |
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> Hmmm... could it be that these entries do not come from fcron itself, but |
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> from PAM? |
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Yes. |
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Configure your syslogger to devnull these specific entries. |
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All three common sysloggers (syslogd,syslog-ng,rsyslog) all come with |
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extensive documentation on how to do this. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |