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KShots
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 Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: Telling syslog-ng to ignore messages |
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How do I tell syslog-ng to ignore a specific kernel message (as in not to record it to its log)?
I'm getting a flood of the following, turning my log file into a huge file (you can see how often it is reported by the time stamps): | Code: | Jul 10 07:59:09 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:11 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:13 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:15 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:17 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:21 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:23 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:23 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:29 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:30 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:35 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:39 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:40 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:44 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:49 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:49 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:55 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 07:59:55 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 08:00:01 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame.
Jul 10 08:00:02 madusa eth0: freeing mc frame. |
I've made a post in the past on resolving the actual issue described, but as nobody ever responded I assume it's not resolvable (and in the end it appears the machine is still functional). So how do I convince syslog to completely ignore this message and quit flooding out the important messages?
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joyo222
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
I don't know how you have syslog-ng set up right now, but you could make a filter on that specific message I guess:
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:
| Code: | filter f_annoying { not match("freeing mc frame"); };
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log { source(src); filter(f_annoying); destination(messages); };
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you can check out "man syslog-ng.conf" for some info (it's pretty concise...). |
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KShots
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, that little scrap of info helped me understand the syslog filter (previously I was just declaring the filter... I also had to include the filter in the log itself).
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