[Mailman-Users] Syslog messages

[Greg Stein]

That is just cron telling you that it is running a command. It logs all
commands that it runs, and I'm not sure that it can be turned off.

If you aren't gatewaying to a newsgroup, then you can modify your
crontab to remote Mailman's gate_news. That would mean fewer things will
be posted to the log.

As part of your general system maintenance, those logs should be
rotated.

I also notice that "root" seems to be running some mailman commands.
That doesn't seem right. Did you accidentally try to set up mailman's
crontab while you were root?

-g

Amanda Shuler wrote:
> 
> Umm.. why am I getting this over and over and over and over in my syslog?
> It's filling up my syslog.
> Is it an error?  I can't tell.
> 
> Dec 19 07:05:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28367]: (mailman) CMD
> (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
> Dec 19 07:05:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28368]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python
> /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
> Dec 19 07:10:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28374]: (mailman) CMD
> (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
> Dec 19 07:10:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28375]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python
> /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news)
> Dec 19 07:12:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28380]: (mailman) CMD
> (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue)
> Dec 19 07:12:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28381]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python
> /var/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue)
> 
> I am getting no mail sent to root or any of the admin accounts saying that
> theer is a problem.  But I would prefer that my syslog not be filled with
> these messages.
> 
> What's up with this?
> 
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> Amanda Shuler           | I don't want to start any
> shuleram at acm.msu.edu    | blasphemous rumours, but...
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