Thanks for the update. I'll ask rsyslog to send bluetoothd output to /dev/null until / unless I need it, then. :) I've been trying to turn off all unnecessary logging on a resource-constrained system so as to avoid wasting the CPU cycles and wake-ups. On 2013-02-11 21:37:54 (+0200), Johan Hedberg wrote: > Hi Rebecca, > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013, Rebecca Menessec wrote: > > I was looking for a way to disable BlueZ logging (Ubuntu machine), and > > came across this, in the bluetoothd manpage: > > > > 'bluetoothd itself does not accept many command-line options, as most of > > its configuration is done in the /etc/bluetooth/main.conf file, which > > has its own man page.' > > > > That doesn't appear to be true. I can't find any trace in any distro, or > > in the source. I've found a bug filed here and there against the lack of > > manpage, but no manpage. > > This is indeed a bug. I just pushed a patch to remove this reference > from the bluetoothd man page. main.conf might deserve its own man page > (even though the upstream sample is self-documenting) but as long one > doesn't exist it's at least better not to have a bogus reference to it. > > It's also worth noting that we're really trying to promote systems > without any /etc/bluetooth directory at all since the bluetoothd > defaults should be usable by as many as possible. > > > There's definitely logging going on by default: > > > > localhost ~ [0]# lsof -n 2> /dev/null | grep blue | grep log > > rsyslogd 804 syslog 2w REG 0,21 > > 2027 8482 /var/log/bluetoothd.log > > rs:main 804 813 syslog 2w REG 0,21 > > 2027 8482 /var/log/bluetoothd.log > > rsyslogd 804 814 syslog 2w REG 0,21 > > 2027 8482 /var/log/bluetoothd.log > > rsyslogd 804 815 syslog 2w REG 0,21 > > 2027 8482 /var/log/bluetoothd.log > > > > Unfortunately, there's no hint anywhere what's causing bluetoothd to > > log, or how to stop it. > > There is no way to stop bluetoothd from logging errors. You can > enable/disable debug logs with the -d switch but that's it. > > Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
