Re: Silent stderr patch

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 26. sep. 2006, at 21.31, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:

> Yesterday we had a problem with a networked filesystem going down,  
> killing
> lots of different servers on various systems.  I wanted to log in via
> the serial console to make system changes, but monit kept failing  
> to start
> processes and was writing tons of stuff to stderr.  This meant that  
> the
> console was bogged down with noise and clutter, making simple shell  
> commands
> difficult and a vi session nearly impossible.

Ouch, I hate it when that happen.

> "Wouldn't it be great," I thought while rapidly hitting CTRL-L as
> /etc/inittab started to resemble a screenshot from The Matrix, "if  
> there
> was a monit directive to disable stderr output?"
>
> Thus, a patch was born.  Included below is some code that adds a
> 'nostderr' directive.  If enabled in /etc/monitrc like
>
>    set nostderr
>
> monit will no longer produce copious quantities of console clutter.


Looks like a useful patch, what do others think? Another alternative  
is of course to start monit with 2>/dev/null. Using "set nostderr" is  
better though.

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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