2018-03-16 6:04 GMT+01:00 Z Ero <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > Two quick questions that may be basic but I never learned to solve yet > since they are not necessary for my work. Solving them would just make > my user experience a little better. > > 1. Is there a way to eliminate core dumps from crashed applications. I > don't want firefox to make a 1 GB core dump in my home directory if it > crashes. > > ulimit can be used to allow 0 bytes of core dumps, that means you won't get any.
> 2. Is there a way to supress or redirect console messages & > application error messages so they do not clutter my xterm. For > example I would rather > > cat console.txt > > than see a message on my xterm every time I plug in a USB device, etc. > Also I don't care about seeing every single little GTK error or > warning firefox has. In fact I would like to see none of them on my > xterm but would not necessarily mind storing them in a log file or > /dev/null. > > Many graphical environments start xconsole that is a specific "xterm" that just consumes (and shows) the kernel messages. As for starting FF or other applications, you either pointy-click on them and have the environment eat all (mostly useless) gtk spam, or make wrapper scripts that redirect to logger or /dev/null. GTK has chosen to have its applications vomit insane amounts of whine on the text output if there is one, so if you start from a terminal, you will have to redirect it somewhere. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
