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brendan

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From: UK

Registered: 2009-05-16

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GDM no logging to /var/log complains

I have a simple warning coming up:

gdm-binary[pidnum]: WARNING: gdn_config_parse: Logdir /var/log/gdm does not exist or isn't a directory. Using ServAuthDir /var/lib/gdm

Now if I create that directory and restart gdm everyone is happy. But since I use tmpfs to mount /var/log - Its a netbook, I dont want to log the drive to death ;-) it complains everytime it boots. I wouldnt mind if it went ahead and created its logdir but for some reason it doesnt.

Is there anyway to stop gdm from even writing logs? syslog isnt running as a demon on the box.

Thanks,

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: GDM no logging to /var/log complains

You could use the inittab method instead, then gdm wouldn't be used at all.

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brendan

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From: UK

Registered: 2009-05-16

Posts: 130

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Re: GDM no logging to /var/log complains

I am using the innitab method

the line is :
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

I could dump all output to /dev/null but thats ugly. I'd rather get rid of the loggin entirely