-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why so many debug messages are going to the /var/log/warn log file? For example: <1.3> 2023-03-09T21:28:27.225193+01:00 Telcontar xsane - - - io/hpmud/model.c 532: no hp_HP_Color_LaserJet_CP1515n attributes found in /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat <1.3> 2023-03-09T21:28:27.228248+01:00 Telcontar xsane - - - io/hpmud/model.c 543: no hp_HP_Color_LaserJet_CP1515n attributes found in /usr/share/hplip/data/models/unreleased/unreleased.dat Well, it is a printer only, but xsane is looking to see if it has a scanner and not finding it. Why is that so huge a problem that I have to be warned about it? I don't care. The programmer might want to see it, but users have no need to see it. Yet it has priority 3. It should be a debug message. For the programmer. #define KERN_EMERG "<0>" /* system is unusable */ #define KERN_ALERT "<1>" /* action must be taken immediately */ #define KERN_CRIT "<2>" /* critical conditions */ #define KERN_ERR "<3>" /* error conditions */ #define KERN_WARNING "<4>" /* warning conditions */ #define KERN_NOTICE "<5>" /* normal but significant condition */ #define KERN_INFO "<6>" /* informational */ #define KERN_DEBUG "<7>" /* debug-level messages */ There are many more. <1.4> 2023-03-09T23:11:37.426440+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 24161 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <1.4> 2023-03-09T23:20:54.003175+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 24897 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <1.4> 2023-03-09T23:21:36.812011+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 24927 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <1.4> 2023-03-09T23:22:05.421592+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 24950 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <1.4> 2023-03-09T23:22:43.379085+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 24973 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <1.4> 2023-03-09T23:23:08.342804+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 24991 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <1.4> 2023-03-09T23:25:31.775909+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 25112 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <1.4> 2023-03-09T23:26:15.878323+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 25144 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale Why is that a warning, and spamming the WARNING log? <1.4> 2023-03-09T21:45:20.910119+01:00 Telcontar krusader 17147 - - QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath: Please instantiate the QApplication object first <1.4> 2023-03-09T21:45:21.655721+01:00 Telcontar krusader 17147 - - 21:45:21.655-warning default unknown@0 # QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action <1.4> 2023-03-09T21:45:21.657776+01:00 Telcontar krusader 17147 - - 21:45:21.657-warning default unknown@0 # QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action <1.4> 2023-03-09T21:45:21.666504+01:00 Telcontar krusader 17147 - - 21:45:21.666-warning kf.i18n unknown@0 # Trying to convert empty KLocalizedString to QString. <1.4> 2023-03-09T21:53:41.223609+01:00 Telcontar tracker-extract 17950 - - Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale <1.4> 2023-03-09T22:20:14.013742+01:00 Telcontar krusader 6836 - - 22:20:14.012-warning kf.kio.widgets unknown@0 # Failed to check which JobView API is supported "The name org.kde.kuiserver was not provided by any .service files" Ditto. 1.4> 2023-03-09T19:07:32.113665+01:00 Telcontar tumblerd 4988 - - Name org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Cache1 lost on the message dbus, exiting. <1.4> 2023-03-09T19:07:32.113782+01:00 Telcontar tumblerd 4988 - - Name org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Manager1 lost on the message dbus, exiting. <1.4> 2023-03-09T19:07:32.113857+01:00 Telcontar tumblerd 4988 - - Name org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1 lost on the message dbus, exiting. There are so many messages going as WARNINGS that the truly important ones are ignored. Sometimes I write a rule on rsyslog to clear some, but there are so many! if $syslogfacility == 1 and $syslogseverity == 4 and $programname == 'tracker-extract' \ and $msg contains "Locale 'LANG' is not set, defaulting to C locale" \ then -/var/log/pruned.warn & stop Maybe I should filter out entire programs: if $syslogfacility == 1 and $syslogseverity == 4 and ($programname == 'tracker-extract' or $programname == 'kglobalaccel5' or $programname == 'tumblerd' or $programname == 'krusader') \ then -/var/log/pruned.warn & stop This is like shouting WOLF! every day. When the wolf comes, nobody listens. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCZAphHRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVZgAAoJMABOTAlYBMsczWniyX 0Y329uOeAJ9izLcUwLTMKE/KrerMkzRF/qPMBA== =OfdZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----