Hal, On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 04:35:14AM -0600, hal wrote: > Hi, > Any way to disable elogind from filling up the message logs? I think all > these messages are happening because I have cron jobs running frequently. > > I could possibly tell rsyslog to file these in cron.log (if it is cron) but > there is still the problem of excess logging taking up disk space. > > Thank you > > ... > [Wed Nov 13 04:15:01 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64956. > [Wed Nov 13 04:15:01 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64957 of user root. > [Wed Nov 13 04:15:01 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64957. > [Wed Nov 13 04:15:01 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64958 of user root. > [Wed Nov 13 04:15:01 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64958. > [Wed Nov 13 04:15:01 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64959 of user root. > [Wed Nov 13 04:15:01 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64959. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:01 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64969 of user root. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:01 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64969. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:01 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64970 of user root. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:01 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64970. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64971 of user root. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64971. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64972 of user root. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64972. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: New session 64973 of user root. > [Wed Nov 13 04:18:02 2019] elogind[2278]: Removed session 64973.
That is 6 new root sessions in 2 seconds. What is in your cron job? I can't immediately think of a reason why you would want a logind session for a root cron job at all. Mark _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
