[Bug 1273177] Re: useless message prefix for 2 upstart logs

[James Hunt]

Hi Jérôme - thank you for reporting this issue. However, this is not a
bug in Upstart - Upstart simply records all output from the programs it
starts, so that output is entirely up to the programs being run, not
Upstart. The 2 examples you give do indeed prefix every line with their
program name, which happens to match the name of the Upstart job, but
there are many other jobs that do not do this.

Upstart provides a logrotate script to ensure /var/log/upstart/*.log
files get rotated and compressed. If you wish to silence the output from
these 2 jobs, you can do so like this:

echo "console none"| sudo tee /etc/init/container-detect.override
echo "console none"| sudo tee /etc/init/ureadahead.override


** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  useless message prefix for 2 upstart logs

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The below logs extracts show that there is a useless message prefix
  since the log file name already use this component name.

  /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log :
  ---
  ureadahead:tracing_enabled: Ignored relative path
  ureadahead:proc/cmdline: Ignored relative path
  ureadahead:proc/cmdline: Ignored relative path
  ureadahead:resolvconf: Ignored relative path
  ureadahead:.: Ignored relative path
  ureadahead:.: Ignored relative path
  ---

  /var/log/upstart/container-detect.log :
  ---
  container-detect stop/pre-start, process 234
  ---

  This prefix inflates the amount of data written on the disk.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu7.2 [modified: sbin/initctl]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-58.88-generic 3.2.53
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-58-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jan 27 11:40:18 2014
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130213)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fr:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.init.tty3.conf: [deleted]
  modified.conffile..etc.init.tty4.conf: [deleted]
  modified.conffile..etc.init.tty5.conf: [deleted]
  modified.conffile..etc.init.tty6.conf: [deleted]
  mtime.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.upstart: 2013-05-12T22:02:24.587121

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