[winswitch] How to disable redirecting to log file

[Peter Swain]

Yonatan, you've mixed two different notations here

Use
  &>/dev/null
or
  >&- 2>&-

On Sun, May 9, 2021, 9:02 AM yonatan zaken via shifter-users <
shifter-users at lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Antoine, Thanks for the response!
>
> I tried the following:
>
> > Why don't you just redirect the output of your noisy command?
> > xpra start --start="bash -c 'therealcommand &> /dev/null'"
>
>
> When trying to start a local session it works fine and stdout of the noisy
> command is redirected to /dev/null.
> But when trying to run the command on a remote machine I get the following
> error:
>
>  Ambiguous output redirect.
> 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088 Error: SSH connection to the xpra server failed
> 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088  check your username, hostname, display number,
> firewall, etc
> 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088  for server: ssh:pci at 172.00.00.26
> 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088  the command line used was:
> 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088  ssh -x -l pci -T 172.19.31.26 sh -c 'xpra
> initenv;~/.xpra/run-xpra _proxy_start "--start-child=bash -c
> 'therealcommand >& /dev/null'" --exit-with-children --mmap-group ||
> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/xpra/run-xpra _proxy_start "--start-child=bash -c
> 'therealcommand >& /dev/null'" --exit-with-children --mmap-group || xpra
> _proxy_start "--start-child=bash -c 'therealcommand >& /dev/null'"
> --exit-with-children --mmap-group'
>
> Any idea how to overcome this ?
>
> *Cheers,*
> *Yonatan*
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 15:28, Antoine Martin via shifter-users <
> shifter-users at lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 09/05/2021 14:56, yonatan zaken via shifter-users wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > My platform: Linux Kubuntu 14
> > > xpra version: xpra v1.0.12-r19800
> > >
> > > I am trying to find a way to disable the redirecting of the xpra server
> > > output to the log file.
> > If you run your server with "--no-daemon" then the output will just go
> > to stdout. You can then redirect that wherever you like:
> > nohup xpra start --start=noisycommand --no-daemon >& /dev/null &
> >
> > > The application that I run via. xpra start generates large amounts of
> > data
> > > to stdout causing the ":1.log" file to be very large. This causes me
> > > trouble since the /run/user is left with no space sometimes.
> > So the problem is not caused by the xpra server but by your unspecified
> > application.
> >
> > > I tried adding the following flag to the xpra.conf file:
> > > remote-logging=no
> > Remote logging has nothing to do with it.
> > That's for sending the client's log messages to the server.
> > (and in newer versions, also back the other way)
> >
> > > But i still see the applications output directed to the .log file.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions how to disable the redirecting of the applications
> stdout
> > > to the log file?
> > Why don't you just redirect the output of your noisy command?
> > xpra start --start="bash -c 'therealcommand &> /dev/null'"
> >
> > You could also create a wrapper script to do the same thing:
> > cat > /usr/bin/mycommand-wrapper << EOF
> > #!/bin/bash
> > mycommand $@ >& /dev/null
> > EOF
> > chmod +x /usr/bin/mycommand-wrapper
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Antoine
> >
> >
> > >
> > > *Cheers,*
> > > *Yonatan*
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