Index: cronie-1.4.7/man/crontab.5 =================================================================== --- cronie-1.4.7.orig/man/crontab.5 +++ cronie-1.4.7/man/crontab.5 @@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ fields. Use the first three letters of day or month (case does not matter). Ranges or lists of names are not allowed. .PP +If the uid of the owner is 0 (root), he can put a "-" as first character of a crontab entry. +This will prevent cron from writing a syslog message about this command getting executed. +.PP The "sixth" field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run. The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or a "%" Index: cronie-1.4.7/src/entry.c =================================================================== --- cronie-1.4.7.orig/src/entry.c +++ cronie-1.4.7/src/entry.c @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ entry *load_entry(FILE * file, void (*er e->flags |= DONT_LOG; else { log_it("CRON", getpid(), "ERROR", "Only privileged user can disable logging", 0); - ecode = e_option; + ecode = e_minute; goto eof; } ch = get_char(file);