That is just cron telling you that it is running a command. It logs all commands that it runs, and I'm not sure that it can be turned off.

If you aren't gatewaying to a newsgroup, then you can modify your crontab to remote Mailman's gate_news. That would mean fewer things will be posted to the log.

As part of your general system maintenance, those logs should be rotated.

I also notice that "root" seems to be running some mailman commands. That doesn't seem right. Did you accidentally try to set up mailman's crontab while you were root?

-g

Amanda Shuler wrote:

Umm.. why am I getting this over and over and over and over in my syslog? It's filling up my syslog. Is it an error? I can't tell.

Dec 19 07:05:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28367]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news) Dec 19 07:05:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28368]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news) Dec 19 07:10:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28374]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news) Dec 19 07:10:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28375]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news) Dec 19 07:12:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28380]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue) Dec 19 07:12:00 snafu /USR/SBIN/CRON[28381]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue)

I am getting no mail sent to root or any of the admin accounts saying that theer is a problem. But I would prefer that my syslog not be filled with these messages.

What's up with this?

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