[winswitch] How to disable redirecting to log file

[yonatan zaken]

Hi Peter, thanks for the reply.
I actually used this notation: >&
For some reason I miss typed it in the quoted line.

As I said, this works for me when running xpra start on a local machine but
generated the error when using it on a remote machine.

*Cheers,*
*Yonatan*




On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 03:50, Peter Swain <swine at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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