Or maybe use a more elaborate syslogd implementation instead of busybox, with a config file describing what level to log from what program to what file?
Chris Abnett wrote: > Could always log it to a file and have a script that deletes the file once > a day or such to keep from filling up space in the normal syslog file... > > -Christopher > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Babiak > [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, > July 23, 2010 11:22 AM To: > [email protected] Subject: > Re: [Astlinux-users] Reducing verbosity of hostapd and dnsmasq > > It looks like crond is being started with the default verbosity level of > 8, and 0 is the 'most verbose'. So I doubt there is much that can be > done for limiting it's output. At least outside of using '-L /dev/null' > which would eliminate all logging, which probably isn't too desirable. > > Sort of the same thing with dnsmasq. While there are options to enable > even more logging, I don't see anything to reduce what we already get. > > -James > > On 07/23/2010 10:58 AM, Ionel Chila wrote: >> Same thing for crond. I have something in crontab running every 5 minutes > and my >> syslog is full of contd messages.... Wish there was a way to reduce or > eliminate >> those crond messages... Thanks >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Michael<[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Fri, July 23, 2010 2:57:35 AM >> Subject: [Astlinux-users] Reducing verbosity of hostapd and dnsmasq >> >> Hello >> >> I have hostapd and dnsmasq running nicely on my machine (thanks to this >> mailing list :-) ). However, they are much too verbose to my mind. >> >> I haven't found a good way to reduce verbosity so far. For hostapd it > seems >> to be hard coded in /etc/init.d/hostapd. If I increase the levels in this >> file to "3" it seems to be o.k. for me. But I guess, it would be nicer to >> have a user.conf variable for that, if it is possible. >> >> For dnsmasq I haven't found any way so far to reduce logging. So my log >> is filling up with >> >> Jul 23 09:31:47 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:31:47 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:31:57 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:31:57 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:04 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:04 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:32:14 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:14 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:20 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:20 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:32:27 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:27 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:32:34 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:34 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:36 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:36 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:32:45 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:45 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:32:54 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:32:54 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:33:01 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:33:01 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:33:09 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:33:09 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:33:10 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:33:10 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:33:24 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:33:24 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 LaptopMB >> Jul 23 09:33:30 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPREQUEST(br1) >> 172.17.2.49 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> Jul 23 09:33:30 pbx daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2588]: DHCPACK(br1) > 172.17.2.49 >> 00:1f:16:0d:7b:41 >> >> and so on and so forth. >> >> Does anybody know how to limit logging to error messages only? >> >> Btw. for the next astlinux version, it might be a good feature to have >> configurable settings on the gui for logging information, if this is >> possible. So, in the normal case, one would use just error logging. And > only >> if there are problems of some kind, one would switch to debug logging :-) >> >> Thanks >> >> Michael >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint >> What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? >> Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> [email protected]. >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint >> What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? >> Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? 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