Re: gpm dumping info to /var/log/messages

[Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 01:17 PM, Mike McClain wrote:
> Is there any way to stop gpm from dumping to /var/log/messages every
> time I copy/paste without stopping other deamons from writing info
> there too? I see no such provisions in the man pages.
> Thanks,
> Mike
> --
> Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Hi Mike,

You should look at the manpage and documentation of rsyslog.conf

if you want to discard messages from gpm you could add a line in the 
RULES section which goes
#this discards all messages from gpm
gpm.*   ~

HTH,
Kailash