I have the following crontab. It executes the jobs in it, but it is filling the system log with cron.err messages. crontab, edited with crontab -e # Once a year, refresh the SSL certificates 0 0 1 */12 * /usr/bin/refresh_ssl_certificates.sh # This script works fine if I just execute it from the …

No way to fix it at all? I even put the cron log level at 9 but it still shows.

No, it is hardcoded in the crond.c sources.

I think I found the line you are referring to, on line [958 here]. I guess I can try patching it so that line is removed just for testing. ( https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/miscutils/crond.c ) log8("USER %s pid %3d cmd %s", Looking into it further, setting log level of 9 probably did not m…

The FEATURE_SYSLOG_INFO option appeared in BusyBox v. 1.31.0. But in OpenWRT in order to save memory :slight_smile: this option is disabled by default: master , openwrt-21.02 branch . As a result, BusyBox components (including cron) in syslog write all messages with the error level.

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