Busybox, new and improved

[anomeome]

Is there some recent BB change yielding logread:

Fri Dec 20 14:06:00 2024 cron.err crond[3550]: wakeup dt=60
Fri Dec 20 14:06:00 2024 cron.err crond[3550]: file root:
Fri Dec 20 14:06:00 2024 cron.err crond[3550]:  line /etc/init.d/banip reload
Fri Dec 20 14:06:00 2024 cron.err crond[3550]:  line /etc/init.d/adblock-fast dl
Fri Dec 20 14:06:00 2024 cron.err crond[3550]:  line /usr/bin/nginx-util 'add_ssl' '_lan'
Fri Dec 20 14:06:00 2024 cron.err crond[3550]:  line /usr/bin/nginx-util 'check_ssl'

ad nauseam, and is there some way to quiesce the spam; @hnyman apologies for the target.

[antonk]

Yes:

busybox: Update to 1.37.0, fix cron log level

Updating your build should help.

[antonk]

Also there is a workaround:

Adblock-lean: set up adblock using dnsmasq blocklist

Edit: actually I didn't pay attention: the PR was merged 19 hours ago. So perhaps people who are having the cron log spam issue should update their build and re-check. Alternatively, you could manually change the behavior in 2 possible ways: Alternative 1: judging by this comment, you should be able to manually set the cron log level in /etc/config/system. I'm not sure of the exact syntax but probably something like adding option cronloglevel '7' under config system. Then you would need to ma…

[hnyman]

@anomeome

there some way to quiesce the spam;

Well, easiest solution is to remove the debug-level logging requiring cronloglevel option from /etc/config/system. Likely you have 5 there as the value if you experience extra logging.

By default there is no setting.

You can either remove the line, or set it to 7 or 9