Re: How to vnc to not log?

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4060.mumia.w@earthlink.net>]

On 10/29/2006 01:11 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
>     Anyone know how to get VNC to not log it's errors?  I have gotten into the
> habit of using VNC as my main interface on my server machine.  Every few weeks
> the log fills up root forcing me to shut down VNC so it'll close the log file
> and allow it to be deleted.  As you can see, a tad large...
>
> grey@teleute:~/.vnc} ls -lh
> total 4.5G
> -rw------- 1 grey shared    8 2004-12-15 17:31 passwd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grey shared 1.8K 2004-12-15 17:31 teleute:10.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grey shared 2.0K 2004-12-15 17:31 teleute:11.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grey shared  90K 2004-12-15 17:31 teleute:16.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grey shared    6 2004-12-15 17:31 teleute:16.pid
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grey shared 4.5G 2006-10-29 11:04 teleute.dmiyu.org:10.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grey shared    5 2006-09-19 19:13 teleute.dmiyu.org:10.pid
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grey shared 2.9K 2005-10-21 03:44 teleute.dmiyu.org:12.log
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 grey shared  169 2005-10-21 06:52 xstartup
>
>     4.5Gb for a log file I never even look at.  When I check the log file to
> see what is going on it is pretty much the same line over and over:
> DeliverEventsToWindow: client index is zero for PWin 0x81ca4f8
> DeliverEventsToWindow: client index is zero for PWin 0x81ca4f8
>
>     Given I have seen no errors that have blown up anything I use it's not
> critical, it's not needed, it's just annoying the crap outta me.  Any clues?
> I couldn't find an obvious answer either in the man pages or on a Google
> search the last time I had to shut down my VNC server (a few weeks ago).

I don't know how to get vnc not to log, but if there is no way to stop 
it, I think you can either echo an empty string to the log file (in a 
cronjob), or you can put the log file onto a small ram disk (using 
either symbolic links or mount). Most probably vnc will not freeze or 
crash when the ram disk is filled to capacity.

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