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RE: Cron - how to turn off logging to the Event Log


I have run into the same cron problem as desribed below, but I have no clue how to go about inplementing the solution. I've used cygwin for about a year now, but I still consider myself a beginner. Can anyone help me turn off Application Event Logging for my cron jobs?

Thank you,

-Tony

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg00211.html

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:06:44PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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.
Ooops, sorry , that's no good advice. There are defines in the cron
sources which handle that. By default SYSLOG is defined in config.h
and LOG_FILE is _not_ defined in pathnames.h. If you undef SYSLOG,
no log is created at all. If you undef SYSLOG and define LOG_FILE,
only a log file is maintained. If both are defined, both log methods
are used concurrently.

Corinna



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