CentOS - Aug 2005 - What are these logged events in /var/log/messages

Hi list!

On all my 4.x boxes (didn't see this on 3.x) I get this in 
/var/log/messages the whole day:

Aug 17 04:02:05 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32149]: session closed for
user root
Aug 17 05:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32668]: session opened for
user root b
y (uid=0)
Aug 17 05:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32668]: session closed for
user root
Aug 17 06:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32712]: session opened for
user root b
y (uid=0)
Aug 17 06:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32712]: session closed for
user root
Aug 17 07:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32762]: session opened for
user root b
y (uid=0)
Aug 17 07:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32762]: session closed for
user root
Aug 17 08:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[344]: session opened for user 
root by
(uid=0)

Logwatch reports it too every day:

crond:
    Unknown Entries:
       session closed for user root: 25 Time(s)
       session opened for user root by (uid=0): 25 Time(s)



Some boxes have up to 770 of these events per day

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 08:52 +0200, Remco Barendse wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> On all my 4.x boxes (didn't see this on 3.x) I get this in 
> /var/log/messages the whole day:
> 
> Aug 17 04:02:05 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32149]: session closed for
> user root
> Some boxes have up to 770 of these events per day
Look in /etc/cron.*.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 08:52 +0200, Remco Barendse wrote:
>> Hi list!
>>
>> On all my 4.x boxes (didn't see this on 3.x) I get this in
>> /var/log/messages the whole day:
>>
>> Aug 17 04:02:05 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32149]: session closed for
>> user root
>
>> Some boxes have up to 770 of these events per day
>
> Look in /etc/cron.*.
>
OK, so I guess that for every cron job that is run as root such an event 
is written to /var/log/messages? Strange that it doesn't report which 
cronjob it has processed, the report as it is now is rather useless for 
any use.

Can I disable those messages?

Hi,

Just wanted to check which branch was the correct one for a Xeon EMT64?

TIA,

Nick