FC 3: Every cron job logged to messages

[S. Bandyopadhyay]

On 10:47am Dec 17, 2004, Andrew Pendray wrote

> I just upgraded my FC2 system to FC3.  Now the following is logged to
> /var/log/messages every time a cron job runs (filling up my messages log
> with unhelpful cruft):
> 
> 
> Dec 17 10:01:01 hostname crond(pam_unix)[15548]: session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Dec 17 10:01:01 hostname crond(pam_unix)[15548]: session closed for user
> root
> 
> 
> I suspect this has to do with cron now using PAM in FC3.  Is there a
> clean way to silence this?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 

edit /etc/syslog.conf

and have auth.info go to /var/log/auth_pam_log. 

man syslog.conf should give you all the options. i think
these will affect all pam auth.info and not just the
auth.info from crond