Too much logging

Brian cabernet at webshield.net.au
Tue Oct 31 05:59:19 CST 2006


On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 05:20:52PM +0930, Alphax wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > 
> > This Suse 10 system (Vanilla kernel 2.6.17.9) is putting out extremely detailed logs
> > as per below. It takes away from their value as I am submerged in heaps of
> > data. Any ideas on how to clean up the logs and/or reduce them to simpler
> > output ?
> > 
> 
> Which logfiles are they, and what are you trying to find? There's always
> tools like grep, tail, less, ... to help you find the "valuable info".

Any tutorials ? grep is probably the command that would be of most use for 
searching a large log file for references to sound card for example.

I see BSD process accounting is compiled into my kernel - also posix
message queues. I wonder if they may cause excessive logging ?

Brian
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