Cron syslog issue

[manjunath.nm89]

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 ?

[Mark_NL]

Everything is logged in syslog

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

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

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

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

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

[manjunath.nm89]

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.

[Mark_NL]

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

[manjunath.nm89]

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

[Mark_NL]

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