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Cron syslog issue

I have written a custom cron. This cron executes a rake task every 5 minutes. I also log the trace of this execution in a file locally on my server. The whole process seems to execute seamlessly every 5 minutes, but then it seems to log it in /var/log/syslog. I investigated on the syslog and found that system's critical errors, and other cron issues are logged in syslog. Has anybody faced this kind of an issue ?

Everything is logged in syslog

it's defined in the config file /etc/rsyslog.conf

Code:

*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog

If you want cron log to go somewhere else, uncomment the line

Code:

#cron.* /var/log/cron.log

and all cronlog entries will go there (they will also still go to syslog though.

But in my etc/syslog.conf, Everything is referenced as /mnt/log/syslog and not /var/log/syslog .

Is this the same for you also.. I Have logged in as root.

Ah well, that depends on what the admin of the server set-up.

default it's /var/log/* .. but maybe if you run in a openvz container, vps, or smth .. those folders could be different (weird, but ok) ..

If all your log files are in /mnt/log/*

then set a line: cron.* -/mnt/log/cron.log

in your rsyslog.conf and restart rsyslogd

Thanks for the quick reply..

But, I have these logs stored both in

/var/log/syslog and /mnt/log/syslog

is this possible. My configuration seems to store only in /mnt/log/syslog

it might help if you post the content of rsyslog.conf :)

/etc/rsyslog.conf

Code:

#################

#### MODULES ####

#################



$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging

$ModLoad imklog   # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd)

#$ModLoad immark  # provides --MARK-- message capability



$KLogPath /proc/kmsg



# provides UDP syslog reception

#$ModLoad imudp

#$UDPServerRun 514



# provides TCP syslog reception

#$ModLoad imtcp

#$InputTCPServerRun 514





###########################

#### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES ####

###########################



#

# Use traditional timestamp format.

# To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line.

#

$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat



# Filter duplicated messages

$RepeatedMsgReduction on



#

# Set the default permissions for all log files.

#

$FileOwner syslog

$FileGroup adm

$FileCreateMode 0640



$DirCreateMode 0755

$Umask 0022

$PrivDropToUser syslog

$PrivDropToGroup syslog



#

# Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/

#

$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf

/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf

Code:

auth,authpriv.*                 /mnt/log/auth.log

*.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/mnt/log/syslog

#cron.*                         /mnt/log/cron.log

daemon.*                        -/mnt/log/daemon.log

kern.*                          -/mnt/log/kern.log

lpr.*                           -/mnt/log/lpr.log

mail.*                          -/mnt/log/mail.log

user.*                          -/mnt/log/user.log



#

# Logging for the mail system.  Split it up so that

# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.

#

mail.info                       -/mnt/log/mail.info

mail.warn                       -/mnt/log/mail.warn

mail.err                        /mnt/log/mail.err



# Logging for INN news system

#

news.crit                       /mnt/log/news/news.crit

news.err                        /mnt/log/news/news.err

news.notice                     -/mnt/log/news/news.notice



#

# Some `catch-all' logfiles.

#

*.=debug;\

        auth,authpriv.none;\

        news.none;mail.none     -/mnt/log/debug

*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\

        auth,authpriv.none;\

        cron,daemon.none;\

        mail,news.none          -/mnt/log/messages

Code:

sed -i 's/#cron\./cron\./' /etc/rsyslog.conf

/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart

all cron related stuff will go into /mnt/log/cron.log now

I guess that /mnt/log and/or /var/log is a symlink to one another

show me:

Code:

ls -al /var

ls -al /mnt