Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

>> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:15 -0700, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>> Feb 4 04:11:01 crond: root /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh
>> Feb 4 04:12:01 crond: root /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh
[this is running every minute]

Bad cron job somewhere, unless the script is totally breaking
all syslog conventions.

From: Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com>
> I know on FreeBSD, system crons are located on /var, but user
> crons are located in the user directory. Is Linux the same way?
> Are cron files located in multiple areas?

The system crontab is in /etc/crontab, user crontabs are in
/var/spool/cron/ . At least that's how it is on Linux with vixie
cron. /etc/crontab typically contains a few environment settings
and the scripts that call everything in cron.hourly, cron.daily,
cron.weekly, and so forth. "grep -r promisc /var/spool/cron/ " and
see what you come up with, and edit whichever user's crontab has
the command in it.

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