Hi Ted, Sorry, perhaps I wasn't to clear. It's not the app that's generating the messages, it's the system. For instance, if I unplug my ethernet cable, I get:
eth0: Autonegotiation advertising 0x5e1 partner 0x00 eth0: link down.
displayed on screen, corrupting my GUI.
Googling seems to suggest that ssyslogd needs a config file (/etc/syslog.conf). Unfortunately, the syslogd I'm using comes as part of busybox, and it ignores /etc/syslog.conf.
Many thanks,
Stuart.
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 20:15, Ted Harding wrote:
On 10-May-05 Stuart Bailey wrote:
Does anyone know how to disable console messages?
I have a small embedded Linux system running a graphical app which uses QT to access the frame buffer directly. However, when the app is running, I get console messages printed on the screen, thus corrupting it. The sort of message I get are eg notification of eth0 up or down, etc.
Many thanks,
Stuart.
On the assumption that the application is writing its messages to "stderr", try modifying the command that starts the app from
app_cmd ...
to
app_cmd ... 2>/dev/null
This redirects the stderr stream to /dev/null which will silently swallow it.
On the other hand it might just be writing these status messages to the "stdout" stream, in which case you can sink these with
app_cmd ... 1>/dev/null
(or even use both together). However, I'm a bit dubious about the wisdom of sinking stdout!
Hoping this helps, Ted.
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