Yonatan, you've mixed two different notations here Use &>/dev/null or >&- 2>&-
On Sun, May 9, 2021, 9:02 AM yonatan zaken via shifter-users < shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote: > Hi Antoine, Thanks for the response! > > I tried the following: > > > Why don't you just redirect the output of your noisy command? > > xpra start --start="bash -c 'therealcommand &> /dev/null'" > > > When trying to start a local session it works fine and stdout of the noisy > command is redirected to /dev/null. > But when trying to run the command on a remote machine I get the following > error: > > Ambiguous output redirect. > 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088 Error: SSH connection to the xpra server failed > 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088 check your username, hostname, display number, > firewall, etc > 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088 for server: ssh:pci@172.00.00.26 > 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088 the command line used was: > 2021-05-09 20:43:16,088 ssh -x -l pci -T 172.19.31.26 sh -c 'xpra > initenv;~/.xpra/run-xpra _proxy_start "--start-child=bash -c > 'therealcommand >& /dev/null'" --exit-with-children --mmap-group || > $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/xpra/run-xpra _proxy_start "--start-child=bash -c > 'therealcommand >& /dev/null'" --exit-with-children --mmap-group || xpra > _proxy_start "--start-child=bash -c 'therealcommand >& /dev/null'" > --exit-with-children --mmap-group' > > Any idea how to overcome this ? > > *Cheers,* > *Yonatan* > > > > > On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 15:28, Antoine Martin via shifter-users < > shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote: > > > On 09/05/2021 14:56, yonatan zaken via shifter-users wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > My platform: Linux Kubuntu 14 > > > xpra version: xpra v1.0.12-r19800 > > > > > > I am trying to find a way to disable the redirecting of the xpra server > > > output to the log file. > > If you run your server with "--no-daemon" then the output will just go > > to stdout. You can then redirect that wherever you like: > > nohup xpra start --start=noisycommand --no-daemon >& /dev/null & > > > > > The application that I run via. xpra start generates large amounts of > > data > > > to stdout causing the ":1.log" file to be very large. This causes me > > > trouble since the /run/user is left with no space sometimes. > > So the problem is not caused by the xpra server but by your unspecified > > application. > > > > > I tried adding the following flag to the xpra.conf file: > > > remote-logging=no > > Remote logging has nothing to do with it. > > That's for sending the client's log messages to the server. > > (and in newer versions, also back the other way) > > > > > But i still see the applications output directed to the .log file. > > > > > > Any suggestions how to disable the redirecting of the applications > stdout > > > to the log file? > > Why don't you just redirect the output of your noisy command? > > xpra start --start="bash -c 'therealcommand &> /dev/null'" > > > > You could also create a wrapper script to do the same thing: > > cat > /usr/bin/mycommand-wrapper << EOF > > #!/bin/bash > > mycommand $@ >& /dev/null > > EOF > > chmod +x /usr/bin/mycommand-wrapper > > > > Cheers, > > Antoine > > > > > > > > > > *Cheers,* > > > *Yonatan* > > > _______________________________________________ > > > shifter-users mailing list > > > shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk > > > https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > shifter-users mailing list > > shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk > > https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users > > > _______________________________________________ > shifter-users mailing list > shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk > https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
