Re: [Jailkit-users] Turning off jailkit logging.

[Olivier Sessink]

Driedger,Norbert [Ontario] wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I hope I'm not missing something obvious, but I'd like to turn off 
> logging of routine messages of "now entering jail /home/sftproot" that 
> end up in /var/log/messages.  I have automated processes that copy to 
> this machine every minute or so, and therefore /var/log/messages gets 
> filled up fairly quickly with mundane stuff.  I used to be able to just 
> not run jk_socketd, but now with jailkit-2.5 this doesn't seem to work.  
> The messages keep coming anyway.  Is there a setting somewhere to turn 
> off this level of logging?

b.t.w.: you can already turn it of in syslog. The messages you specify 
are sent with INFO priority.

In syslogd.conf you can specify
auth;auth.!=info         /var/log/auth.log
to silence these messages.

See man syslogd.conf

Jailkit logs to the LOG_AUTH facility and uses levels LOG_ERR and 
LOG_CRIT for serious errors, LOG_NOTICE for non-critical errors, and 
LOG_INFO for messages that indicate expected behavior.

regards,
        Olivier