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Configure log file for cron daemon on AIX
Article Number: 504 | Rating: 5/5 from 1 votes | Last Updated: Thu, Feb 21, 2019 5:50 PM
Cron daemon log in by default on /var/adm/cron/log, but I wanted to put it with all other logs of the system.
All system logs (syslog, mksysb, ftp, http, and so on, are on /var/syslog filesystem, I decided to put cron logs in the same place. Here’s what I did.
Add this lines to the end of file /etc/cronlog.conf
1 2 3 4 5 | logfile=/var/syslog/cron.logsize=2mrotate=4archive=/var/syslogcompress |
As cron is started from inittab it will respawn when you kill the PID.
1 2 | [root@aix:/] cat /etc/inittab|grep croncron:23456789:respawn:/usr/sbin/cron |
So, just kill cron’s PID (10748102 in this case)
1 2 | [root@aix:/var/adm/cron] ps -ef|grep cron root 10748102 1 0 18:35:42 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron |
Note also that cron log wil be rotate and compress. See:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | [root@bibmnim:/var/adm/cron] ls -ltr /var/syslog/total 18752drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 256 Mar 01 2011 lost+found-rw-rw-r-- 1 root cron 164711 Apr 21 23:58 cron.log.0.Z-rw-rw-r-- 1 root cron 165926 Apr 27 12:29 cron.log.1.Z-rw-rw-r-- 1 root cron 165527 May 03 01:01 cron.log.2.Z-rw-rw-r-- 1 root cron 164224 May 08 13:45 cron.log.3.Z-rw-rw-r-- 1 root cron 1493 May 13 18:41 cron.log |
That’s it!
Just thanks if the post was helpful
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