From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12249 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2002 06:25:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12242 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 06:24:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (209.185.241.77) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2002 06:24:59 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:24:59 -0700 Received: from 166.70.14.22 by lw3fd.law3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:24:59 GMT X-Originating-IP: [166.70.14.22] From: "Tony Fenleish" To: maharig@idirect.net, cygwin@cygwin.com Bcc: Subject: RE: Cron - how to turn off logging to the Event Log Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:55:00 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jul 2002 06:24:59.0592 (UTC) FILETIME=[2AEB0480:01C2346D] X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg02060.txt.bz2 Perfect! It works great. Thank you for giving such a detailed explanation and taking time for a novice. -Tony >From: "Harig, Mark A." >To: "Tony Fenleish" , >Subject: RE: Cron - how to turn off logging to the Event Log >Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:25:41 -0400 > >1. Run setup.exe > >2. When selecting packages to install, find 'cron' > in the 'Admin' Category. Click on the open box > to put an 'x' in it in the 'Src?' column for > 'cron'. This will cause source files for > 'cron' to be downloaded to your computer. > >3. Install 'Devel' category. It contains many of > the programs that you will need to build 'cron', > (particularly, 'make' and 'gcc'). > >4. If you don't have a text editor installed, then > consider downloading one or more of the editors > in the 'Editors' and 'Misc' Category. > >5. Run 'setup.exe' through to completion. > >6. In your bash shell, cd /usr/src/cron-3.0.1-7. > >7. Edit the files 'config.h' and 'pathnames.h' in > that directory, as described by Corinna Vinschen, > below. > >8. Run 'make' at your shell prompt to build your > customized version of cron.exe: $ make > >9. Stop and uninstall the cron daemon that you have > installed. > >10. Using 'cygrunsrv', install your new version, > specifying the path to your new cron.exe. Start > the new daemon, and test it. > >11. If no problems occurred, then run 'make install' > in /usr/src/cron-3.0.1-7 to install the cron files > into the standard places, uninstall the cron daemon, > and reinstall/restart it from the standard location, > i.e., /usr/sbin/cron.exe. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Fenleish [mailto:tleish@hotmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:44 AM > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: RE: Cron - how to turn off logging to the Event Log > > > > > > I have run into the same cron problem as desribed below, but > > I have no clue > > how to go about inplementing the solution. I've used cygwin > > for about a > > year now, but I still consider myself a beginner. Can anyone > > help me turn > > off Application Event Logging for my cron jobs? > > > > Thank you, > > > > -Tony > > > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg00211.html > > > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:06:44PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:38:26PM +0100, Dan Gardner wrote: > > > > > I've got rsync running as a cron job. The job runs about once a > > >minute. How > > > > do I stop cygwin/cron logging to the NT event log > > (application) as it is > > > > filling it up with information-event messages "The > > description for Event > > >ID > > > > ( 0 ) in Source ( Cygwin ) could not be found..........." > > etc. I wish > > >to > > > > turn it off, so I can leave the machine for days/weeks > > with out worry > > >that > > > > the application log is full. > > > > > >The application log can be set to `overwrite events as needed' if > > >the size increased an upper limit. > > > > > >If that's inappropriate for you, take the cron sources and eliminate > > >all syslog() calls. Then recompile. > > > > Ooops, sorry , that's no good advice. There are defines in the cron > > sources which handle that. By default SYSLOG is defined in config.h > > and LOG_FILE is _not_ defined in pathnames.h. If you undef SYSLOG, > > no log is created at all. If you undef SYSLOG and define LOG_FILE, > > only a log file is maintained. If both are defined, both log methods > > are used concurrently. > > > > Corinna > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/