By Krythis on

Is there any way to disable the 'Cron run completed.' log entries? I searched the forums and found there was a solution for Drupal 4, but I don't see anything beyond that.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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thekevinday commented

I was looking at this myself.

A quick fix for yourself would be to search the files for the string "Cron run completed" and comment out that line.

In drupal 6.x, it is in the file includes/common.inc on line 2651.

The line of code looks like: watchdog('cron', 'Cron run completed.', array(), WATCHDOG_NOTICE);

Heres my drupal-6.x patch:

--- drupal-6.12/includes/common.inc.orig        2009-05-18 13:01:36.000000000 -0500
+++ drupal-6.12/includes/common.inc     2009-05-18 13:01:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -2648,7 +2648,7 @@

     // Record cron time
     variable_set('cron_last', time());
-    watchdog('cron', 'Cron run completed.', array(), WATCHDOG_NOTICE);
+    //watchdog('cron', 'Cron run completed.', array(), WATCHDOG_NOTICE);

     // Release cron semaphore
     variable_del('cron_semaphore');

I decided to do a quick look, the drupal 5 seems to be pretty easy to find and fix as well.
Heres a drupal-5.x patch

--- drupal-5.18/includes/common.inc.orig        2009-05-18 13:07:01.000000000 -0500
+++ drupal-5.18/includes/common.inc     2009-05-18 13:07:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -2155,7 +2155,7 @@
 
     // Record cron time
     variable_set('cron_last', time());
-    watchdog('cron', t('Cron run completed.'), WATCHDOG_NOTICE);
+    //watchdog('cron', t('Cron run completed.'), WATCHDOG_NOTICE);
 
     // Release cron semaphore
     variable_del('cron_semaphore');

For me, the cron was flooding the logs because I have to do cron runs every single minute, which causes all useful logs to be hard to find and the log buffer to become full very quickly.

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Krythis commented

Worked great, thanks for the followup!