monitor.pl too many records in syslog

There are a lot of records in my syslog file like this one:

Oct 5 10:45:01 server /USR/SBIN/CRON[29603]: (root) CMD (/etc/webmin/status/mon itor.pl)

There is a cronjob every 5 minutes for that script.

1) What is monitor.pl doing and why it has to be run every 5 minutes?

2) I am not using webmin service. I start it when is requested. Deleting the cron job is a good idea? Or increasing the time to 1h, 1d?

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Howdy -- what you're seeing there is normal.

It's part of the feature in System Settings -> Features and Plugins -> Status Monitoring.

Additional parts of that can be configured in Webmin -> Others -> System and Server Status.

Since that's not a bug though, you'd want to use the Forums for asking additional questions about that. Thanks!

Thank you Eric.

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2) I am not using webmin service. I start it when is requested. Deleting the cron job is a good idea? Or increasing the time to 1h, 1d? In this way I will reduce the numbers of records into syslog file.

We'd be happy to talk about your questions in the Forums, feel free to start up a new Forum thread and we can discuss that there.