I’m setting up a logging script to track utilization on our deployed systems. I’m running it every minute using cron. Each time it runs, I get an entry in /var/log/messages telling me it ran. That is a lot of useless information. Is there a way to prevent the creation of these log entries?
man 5 crontab says:
If the uid of the owner is 0 (root), he can put a “-” as first character of a crontab entry. This will prevent cron from writing a syslog message about this command getting executed.