On Wed, 12 May 2004, Russell Hires wrote:
> I've got a problem where my sound subsystem crashes (long story there) and it
> sends messages to kern.log and syslog. What I'm wanting to do is capture
> those few messages and send them to /dev/null. So far, because they are
> sooooo repetitious, these messages fill up my log files and then my /var
> directory. So...I looked up klogd and syslogd to find out if they could
> isolate certain messages, but I don't quite see a way to do that.
>
> Any ideas?
First guess is you could create a process which is something like
tail -f $PIPE | grep -v $SOUND_MESSAGE >> kern.log
and have syslogd write all relevant messages to $PIPE.
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