Tag: rsyslog

Written by Tim

Logging CRON messages to a different file

Noticed that a lot of the messages in /var/log/syslog are from CRON and anacron?  Would you prefer that they be directed to a different file?  Easy Peasy. I use cron to schedule the execution of a number of programs that perform a variety of tasks (e.g. backups).  By default, Ubuntu 18.04 is configured to log […]

Written by Tim

Suppressing messages in /var/log/syslog

Running Ubuntu or some other Linux distro?  Seeing lots of pointless messages in /var/log/syslog?  Want to be able to stop/suppress/filter the entries from a particular program so that they don’t obscure the more important ones?  I’ll show you how. Lots of Linux users peek inside of the logs that accumulate in /var/log/ every-so-often to keep […]