cron - how to turn off logging to the Event Log
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 5 09:06:00 GMT 2001
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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