Re: [Gimp-user] Lowering or redirecting Gnome logging

[Carol Spears <carol spears gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Christopher Howard <
christopher alaskasi com> wrote:

> Hi, I have a Gnome 3 desktop running on Debian Jessie.
> My /var/log/messages keeps blowing up to over 8 GB. When I study the
> log, it looks like about 95% of the messages are Gnome debugging
> messages. A lot of that 95% are debug messages from various apps using
> glib or gtk, and a lot of it is Gnome Shell warnings repeated thousands
> of times.
>
> I've heard of ways to put a limit on the log size, but what I really
> want to do is reduce a lot of that Gnome debug "clutter" so only the
> smaller set of important messages are in the log. Is there some global
> Gnome option somewhere that reduces the logging level for all
> Gnome-based programs? That would be the ideal solution, I think.
> Alternatively, if I could figure out an easy way to redirect those Gnome
> messages elsewhere, that might be sufficient.
>
>  Are you *sure* it's gnome?  Perhaps you need to reinstall but this time
not choose the software with '-dbg' in its name.

Maybe, the messages have already been redirected and the kernel is getting
a lot more chatter than it needs.

Good luck with that!  Opening things up in a terminal emulator might direct
the messages to you to read.

Carol