It is not causing any problems for me, it just feels like unnecessary
logging by default. I presumed that it would be easy to turn off, bur if not
easy to disable then so be it. I can live with it.
David

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Darrick Hartman
<[email protected]>wrote:

> David,
>
> Looking at the dnsmasq.conf file, I don't see an easy way to disable that.
>
> http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq.conf.example
>
> It's info, not a warning but it is very helpful.  It's also not very
> chatty.  I will not support removing it by default.  The only time it shows
> up is when the DHCP lease is renewed or when a device is restarted.  If
> those 6 lines are going to break a system, we have something that's way to
> fragile.  (It's not fragile).  I'd suggest using an external syslog host if
> you're really that concerned about this taking up too much size.  They are
> logged to tmpfs, not to the CF card (unless you purposely enable persistent
> logging).
>
> Darrick
>
> David Kerr wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to stop dnsmasq from logging messages to syslog?  This
>> component is producing by far the most lines in my system log now. For
>> example....
>>
>> Mar 15 15:21:01 pbx daemon.info <http://daemon.info> dnsmasq[2298]:
>> DHCPDISCOVER(eth1) 00:1e:c2:b7:6e:53 Mar 15 15:21:01 pbx daemon.info <
>> http://daemon.info> dnsmasq[2298]: DHCPOFFER(eth1) 192.168.1.217
>> 00:1e:c2:b7:6e:53 Mar 15 15:21:01 pbx daemon.info <http://daemon.info>
>> dnsmasq[2298]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth1) 00:1e:c2:b7:6e:53 Mar 15 15:21:01 pbx
>> daemon.info <http://daemon.info> dnsmasq[2298]: DHCPOFFER(eth1)
>> 192.168.1.217 00:1e:c2:b7:6e:53 Mar 15 15:21:02 pbx daemon.info <
>> http://daemon.info> dnsmasq[2298]: DHCPREQUEST(eth1) 192.168.1.217
>> 00:1e:c2:b7:6e:53 Mar 15 15:21:02 pbx daemon.info <http://daemon.info>
>> dnsmasq[2298]: DHCPACK(eth1) 192.168.1.217 00:1e:c2:b7:6e:53
>>
>> and many more.  These are not errors or warnings, just business-as-usual
>> DHCP that I'd rather not be filling up the syslog.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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