Hi Peter, thanks for the reply. I actually used this notation: >& For some reason I miss typed it in the quoted line.
As I said, this works for me when running xpra start on a local machine but generated the error when using it on a remote machine. *Cheers,* *Yonatan* On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 03:50, Peter Swain <sw...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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
