How can I prevent cron from filling up my syslog?

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Published on 2009-06-25T01:00:54Z Indexed on 2012/11/02 5:10 UTC
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I have a script which needs to be executed each minute. The problem is that cron is logging to /var/log/syslog each time it executes. I end up seeing something like this repeated over and over in /var/log/syslog-

Jun 25 00:56:01 myhostname /USR/SBIN/CRON[1144]: (root) CMD (php /path/to/script.php > /dev/null)

btw- i'm using debian

My questions is- Is there any way I can tell cron not write this information to syslog every time?

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