> Hello, > > This seems to be a routine log entry I just don't know what causes it. > On Aug 24th alone I had a total of 479 entries (with corresponding > 'closed' entries). > > The file line is: Aug 25 14:50:02 servername crond(pam_unix)[9219]: > session closed for user root > > I am GUESSING that this is just a message generated everytime some > kind of cron job is run? > > Is this kind of output useful for anything or can it be supressed? > (Just seems like kind of a waste of disc space.) You are right - whenever a cron job runs as root it is logged. I would not deactivate those notices - you might miss something important. Thomas