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Lowering or redirecting Gnome logging

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Lowering or redirecting Gnome logging Christopher Howard 18 Jul 17:42
  Lowering or redirecting Gnome logging Carol Spears 18 Jul 23:21
Christopher Howard
2017-07-18 17:42:05 UTC (over 6 years ago)

Lowering or redirecting Gnome logging

Hi, I have a Gnome 3 desktop running on Debian Jessie. My /var/log/messages keeps blowing up to over 8 GB. When I study the log, it looks like about 95% of the messages are Gnome debugging messages. A lot of that 95% are debug messages from various apps using glib or gtk, and a lot of it is Gnome Shell warnings repeated thousands of times.

I've heard of ways to put a limit on the log size, but what I really want to do is reduce a lot of that Gnome debug "clutter" so only the smaller set of important messages are in the log. Is there some global Gnome option somewhere that reduces the logging level for all Gnome-based programs? That would be the ideal solution, I think. Alternatively, if I could figure out an easy way to redirect those Gnome messages elsewhere, that might be sufficient.

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Carol Spears
2017-07-18 23:21:57 UTC (over 6 years ago)

Lowering or redirecting Gnome logging

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Christopher Howard < christopher@alaskasi.com> wrote:

Hi, I have a Gnome 3 desktop running on Debian Jessie. My /var/log/messages keeps blowing up to over 8 GB. When I study the log, it looks like about 95% of the messages are Gnome debugging messages. A lot of that 95% are debug messages from various apps using glib or gtk, and a lot of it is Gnome Shell warnings repeated thousands of times.

I've heard of ways to put a limit on the log size, but what I really want to do is reduce a lot of that Gnome debug "clutter" so only the smaller set of important messages are in the log. Is there some global Gnome option somewhere that reduces the logging level for all Gnome-based programs? That would be the ideal solution, I think. Alternatively, if I could figure out an easy way to redirect those Gnome messages elsewhere, that might be sufficient.

Are you *sure* it's gnome? Perhaps you need to reinstall but this time

not choose the software with '-dbg' in its name.

Maybe, the messages have already been redirected and the kernel is getting a lot more chatter than it needs.

Good luck with that! Opening things up in a terminal emulator might direct the messages to you to read.

Carol