Re: [gdm-list] gdm-list Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

["John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2 cox net>]

> We have server systems running Gnome Display Manager which remote users 
> use to start an X session with XDMCP. This puts messages in 
> /var/log/secure at every connect/disconnect, related to polkit. We don't 
> need the users authenticated for console activities like mounting a CD 
> drive. Want to not have these messages being logged. How can they be 
> stopped? CentOS 6.5 is OS; Gnome version is 2.28. Thanks.

i'm not the maintainer of gdm but did write:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdm-options/

unsure why one would care about /var/log style logging - deleting 
log files regularly is day-in day-out stuff and there's software to 
do it.

you have many options using unix

one is you can point file to /dev/null (if there are few open 
restrictions).  note it may barf if your file (link, socket, what) 
has incompatible permissions set (it may exit/fail on file open of 
that file)