Ubuntu :: How To Stop Logging Cron To Syslog

There was an useful discussion on "how to stop logging cron to syslog". The useful answer is to update the line targeting syslog in /etc/syslog.conf to say something like:

Code:
*.*;auth,authpriv.none,mail.none,cron.none -/var/log/syslog
the significant part being that cron.none means that cron will not log to syslog.

There was discussion about whether this was a good thing to do, but omitted to suggest that adding/ uncommenting the following line would mean that no information would be lost but that syslog would be less cluttered as a source of monitoring info:

Code:
cron.* -/var/log/cron.log

You've still got all your cron-related log items available in cron.log if and when you need them. To make the new /etc/syslog.conf lines effective you should also, with root privileges:

Code:
touch /var/log/cron.log
chown syslog:adm /var/log/cron.log
and restart syslog. In my case:

Code:
/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart