I know what whoopsie
is from the answers to What is the 'whoopsie' process and how can I remove it?
I do not want to stop error reporting, as I think that error reporting is the minimum a user should do to try to help Ubuntu. But since the upgrade to 13.10, whoopsie
has grown up quite chatty. I have literally hundreds of messages like that in my logs:
SYS: Nov 4 14:40:48 samsung-romano whoopsie[1156]: online
SYS: Nov 4 14:41:56 whoopsie[1156]: last message repeated 4 times
SYS: Nov 4 14:42:56 whoopsie[1156]: last message repeated 2 times
SYS: Nov 4 14:43:56 whoopsie[1156]: last message repeated 2 times
SYS: Nov 4 14:44:56 whoopsie[1156]: last message repeated 2 times
% zgrep whoopsie /var/log/syslog*gz | wc -l
773
Is there a way to tell whoopsie
to be less verbose?
(the funny output format is from SLogger, a homemade program to check system log files I wrote ages ago, but this is basically the content of /var/log/syslog
file).
Best Answer
Per sokai, there is no way to run whoopsie that prevents it from logging these "online" messages -- it's a bug. However, if you want to get them out of your logs, you can drop the following line into /etc/rsyslog.d/00-whoopsie.conf and the messages won't be logged anymore:
This is pretty specific, too. If whoopsie logs something else other than " online", it will still make it to your logs.