HOWTO vixie-cron notes

On a hardened gentoo machine, the main /var/log/messages file becomes hugely cluttered with the minute-by-minute cron messages. They are far too verbose :-( Cut down on the clutter by editing and making the red/bold changes:

hostname ~ # emacs -nw /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf

filter f_messages { level(info..warn)
        and not facility(auth, authpriv, mail, news, cron); };