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Re: adding netdate to cron getting message on /dev/tty1, how stop?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herbert Thielen)
Sat Aug 12 10:29:42 1995
From: Herbert Thielen <Herbert.Thielen@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
To: GeisJ@rnd3.indy.tce.com (Geis Jerry)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:54:19 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <302A1EE8@MSMAIL.INDY.TCE.COM> from "Geis Jerry" at Aug 10, 95 07:44:00 am
Geis Jerry wrote:
>
>
> I added netdate to the root crontab like so:
> 0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/netdate -l 3300 >> /tmp/netdate
>
> Now I get a message like this on /dev/tty1
> 10-Aug-95 06:35 USER root pid 94 cmd /usr/sbin/netdate ....
>
> How do I turn this message off????
>
> I tried the following:
> 1) /etc/rc.d/rc.M made the -l10 to -l0 for crond (no effect)
> 2) my /etc/syslog.conf has *.notice, *.info and *.debug going to
> /var/adm/messages
Looks like dillon crond. You have to redirect stderr when starting
crond, sth. like
crond 2> /var/adm/cronlog
in /etc/rc.d/rc.*
Don't forget that cronlog is growing all * minutes while your system is
running ...
Regards
Herbert.
