KDE msg spew

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Apr 7 11:47:32 UTC 2008


Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:

> When using kde programs as root from a gnome terminal, kde spews msgs
> that fill and overflow my 1000 line scroll buffer.  How do I stop this
> spew?  > /dev/null doesn't help.  TIA

Until very recently, most/all kde builds in rawhide (and kde dev platform
builds for f7/f8) were inadvertantly built with debugging messages enabled. 
rawhide has been fixed, new builds for f7/8 coming soon.

In the meantime, using instead kdefoo >& /dev/null should work nicely.

-- Rex




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