Hi, I would like to suppress logging of tasks by cron in the Windows Application Event log. I want to schedule a task that runs frequently but do not want the Event log to quickly grow.
I did search the Cygwin mailing list archive and found this: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01333.html I found that the -1 and -2 switches create String values "StdOut" and "StdErr" for the Parameters key of the cron service in the registry. It would appear that any output should be logged to /var/log/cron.log. Unfortunately, this does not seem to work and every time a task runs in cron, an entry is added to the Application Event log. The cron.log file itself only shows lines similar to the following: [2252] cron started The cron.log file doesn't contain anything else, just the pid and the "started" line (when cron is stopped it doesn't log anything to cron.log). I did stop/restart cron just to see if the settings would take effect, but this didn't work either. I'm hoping that somebody has some suggestions for me. Thank you, Herman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
