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whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

dhclient / wicd messages.log spam

Mar 17 13:01:03 localhost dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.3-P2
Mar 17 13:01:03 localhost dhclient: Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
Mar 17 13:01:03 localhost dhclient: All rights reserved.
Mar 17 13:01:03 localhost dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

I can see how they might want me to know that. But it's really not the kind of information I want to see repeated a hundred times over the course of a day when I'm opening my messages.log

Can I (and am I allowed to) stop dhclient / wicd from spamming my messages.log or do I have to remove it if I want to get rid of those messages?

Also:
Is this a bug or intended behaviour?
And if it's a bug, do I head over to wicd or to dhclient bugtracker? :3

thx

smudge

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 158

Re: dhclient / wicd messages.log spam

You can probably stop those messages by editing /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf. The wiki has good bit on syslog-ng.