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Re: cron - how to turn off logging to the Event Log
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- Subject: Re: cron - how to turn off logging to the Event Log
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:06:44 +0200
- References: <E1B4A7141B8BD411925200508BC5D44FF2C35D@ANGELMAIL01>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:38:26PM +0100, Dan Gardner wrote:
>
> I've got rsync running as a cron job. The job runs about once a minute. How
> do I stop cygwin/cron logging to the NT event log (application) as it is
> filling it up with information-event messages "The description for Event ID
> ( 0 ) in Source ( Cygwin ) could not be found..........." etc. I wish to
> turn it off, so I can leave the machine for days/weeks with out worry that
> the application log is full.
The application log can be set to `overwrite events as needed' if
the size increased an upper limit.
If that's inappropriate for you, take the cron sources and eliminate
all syslog() calls. Then recompile.
Corinna
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