stopping glob2 from filling the disk with log files (was: [glob2-devel] more feedback (many topics))

[Joe Wells]

Joe Wells <address@hidden> writes:

> Kai Antweiler <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I've got an idea what you can try:
>> # cd .glob2/logs
>> # for in * ; do rm $i; touch $i; chmod -w $i ;done
>>
>> This should work without changes to the glob2 source code.
>
> I'll try this last option (denying write permission on the .log files)
> and see if it works.  (I'm not planning on compiling from CVS any time
> in the near future.  I'm happy to try releases.)

Okay, I've tried this.  It doesn't work, because glob2 just renames
the .log files to .log~ and creates new ones.

It does work to remove write permission on the ~/.glob2/logs
directory.

If I do this, then glob2 stops making log files and instead spews all
of that data to stdout.  It is enough to redirect stdout (not stderr)
to /dev/null to get rid of this.

-- 
Joe