Bug 11009 - metalog.conf "crond" vs "cron"
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Bug#:
11009
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Product: Gentoo Linux
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Version: 1.2
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Platform: All
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OS/Version: Linux
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Status: RESOLVED
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Severity: minor
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Priority: P2
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Resolution: FIXED
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Assigned To: pebenito@gentoo.org
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Reported By: mak-gentoo-bugzilla@greenhills.co.uk
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Component: Applications
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URL:
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Summary: metalog.conf "crond" vs "cron"
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Keywords:
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Status Whiteboard:
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Opened: 2002-11-20 11:43 0000
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metalog.conf uses program name "crond" in it's Crond section.
http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-announce/2002-April/000151.html
suggests that dcron is the Gentoo default, and that has a "crond".
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
suggests using vcron, and that has a "cron" instead.
It also recommends metalog.
So if you use the recommended metalog and vcron together,
you get cron messages only in /var/log/everything/, not /var/log/crond.
I found that a little surprising. Not sure what (if anything) to do
about it. Perhaps metalog's ebuild file should warn you to change
metalog.conf if you use it with vcron?
From what I can see:
dcron = crond
fcron = fcron
vcron = cron
So the only cron that will work out-o-the-box is dcron, while the other two need
.conf adjustments in metalog.
I'm wondering if it might do some good to switch:
program = "crond"
to:
facility = "cron"
in metalog.conf. That should cover capture of all cron messages regardless of
which cron is being used.
Sounds good to me; I've changed my metalog.conf accordingly.
You might also consider using:
logdir = "/var/log/cron"
instead of:
logdir = "/var/log/crond"
although I could imagine such a change could cause some confusion.
Wow this bug has been idling around for a long time. I've got facility =
"cron" in my config, and I use vcron fine. I'll try to find out if it works
with d/fcron too.
Ok, this change is committed to CVS. Vcron and fcron work with facility,
and I couldn't get dcron to log to syslog. If dcron does log to syslog,
but not using the cron facility, then its got the problem.
