[ILUG] PAM logging

[Colm Buckley]

This is driving me insane...

On one of my systems (only one!), PAM_unix sends a log message to the
console every couple of minutes, to the effect that 'cron' is closing
a session as root.

To be precise, the message is:

PAM_unix[<PID>]: (cron) session closed for user root

I don't mind this being logged to auth.log, but having it sent to
/dev/console is somewhat annoying.  However, I can't find a way to
make it stop...

The relevant bits of syslog.conf:

    auth,authpriv.*                 /var/log/auth.log
    *.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog
    *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
            auth,authpriv.none;\
            cron,daemon.none;\
            mail,news.none          -/var/log/messages

/etc/pam.d/cron contains:

    account    required   pam_unix.so
    auth       required   pam_unix.so nullok
    auth       required   pam_env.so
    session    required   pam_unix.so
    session    required   pam_limits.so

Any thoughts?

           Colm

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