[gentoo-user] How to trim logs?

2017-05-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I use a KVM switch to connect my mouse and keyboard to any of three boxes on the LAN. Every time I switch to, say, the LAN server, I get spammed with a bunch of messages like this (trimming out the first few fields): kernel: usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 14 using ehci-pci

Re: [gentoo-user] How to trim logs?

2017-05-07 Thread Adam Carter
Read 'man 3 syslog' and search for facility. As an alternative you could disable CONFIG_USB_ANNOUNCE_NEW_DEVICES and use 'dmesg | tail' to check the disk device allocation.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to trim logs?

2017-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 07 May 2017 19:39:42 Adam Carter wrote: > Read 'man 3 syslog' and search for facility. Ah, so that's where it is. > As an alternative you could disable CONFIG_USB_ANNOUNCE_NEW_DEVICES and > use 'dmesg | tail' to check the disk device allocation. I'm taking this route for now. Compiling

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] How to trim logs?

2017-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 07 May 2017 13:13:41 I wrote: > ... Compiling a new kernel on that box takes a few hours. 2.5 actually: 158 minutes. It's an Atom N270. -- Regards Peter