Hi,

Since I have upgraded my router from FC1 to FC3, my log is being filled with logins by crond for management tasks.

This is fairly logical to keep track of what the machine is doing, but it clutters my logs a bit too mucht to keep track of remaining loggings.

Does anybody experience the same, or know how to get rid of the loggings? (no, not get rid of crond ).

Thanks in advance,

Hi,

I was also looking for a solution and as I didn't find any I decided to dive into PAM (*gasp*).
My solution:

change this in /etc/pam.d/crond:

[...]
#session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so


pam_stack makes pam look into the system-auth service:

session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so

The session component of pam_unix simply logs start and end of session. So I disabled pam_stack and put only pam_limits into crond's pam file.

Isn't security compromised doing this ?

If by "security" you mean "log everything", then yes.
Otherwise: No, I think not. As I wrote, all the session component does is logging the start and end of a session. So, if you remove this, what will you lose?

okay, thx