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What utilities send messages to xerrs.log?
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musher0
 Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 2211 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello, all. As much as I appreciate being able to refer to xerrs.log when something has really gone wrong in any Puppy, it seems to me that, a lot of times, xerrs.log is just an "automatic grouch". A few examples :
If your gnome-mplayer is not configured properly, it sends you a vdpau (nvidia) message, even if your video card is a radeon card. It sends you kde error messages, even if you don't have KDE installed. BK's / don570's report-video is logged there even if you don't ask for it. It's never satisfied with the syntax you use for "kill". There are many aspects to this, not the least being the perception among new users that this or that Puppy is full of errors. There was also this time when a fellow user jumped on my back like a mountain lion because I had not included enough "black hole" messages (>/dev/null 2>&1) in my code. So, to maintain my self-esteem  as well as in the interest of having a nicely humming Puppy:
What are the utilities that send messages to xerrs.log ? How can one make theses utilities just sensitive enough to catch real errors, so that we do not confuse errors with regular system reports? Thanks in advance for any lead. musher0 Att. : one xerrs.log file
_________________  "...l'industrie de l'informatique n'aura besoin que de très peu de temps pour ramener l'humanité aux dessins rupestres." (M. Goebbel, Order of the Command Line; [ma trad.]) |
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Karl Godt
 Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany |
From inside Xorg/Xvesa server every app that is run without controlling terminal sends errs to xerrs.log . xerrs.log gets created by /usr/bin/xwin script . Apps that run without controlling terminal are apps that are not launched from the console . Apps that are not launched from console is everything forked by /root/.xinitrc , /root/.jwmrc and /root/Choices/MIME-types . Lately discovered that kill -s SHUTUP `pidof nasty-program` 2>/dev/null seems not to work all of the time. The shell has actually an interesting function : jobs , but that does only work on programs inside the controlling terminal . If forked, then jobs does not work 
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 2211 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hi, Karl. Thanks for the info. Best regards. musher0 _________________ "...l'industrie de l'informatique n'aura besoin que de très peu de temps pour ramener l'humanité aux dessins rupestres." (M. Goebbel, Order of the Command Line; [ma trad.]) |
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