[Bug 1322897] Re: syslog spam Failed to get vmstats.

[flickerfly]

Sorry, I was assuming a newer version. That should work on 14.04, but your
syntax will work on both I believe. Glad you found what you needed.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:11 AM WIll Salmon <will.salmon at ncl.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Thanks. At least it's useful to know that the message can be ignored as
> it comes out EVERY 30 SECONDS (not every 30 min) !!
>
> I found that the suggested rsyslog /etc/rsyslog.d/40-discard.conf did
> not work (on Ubuntu 12.04.5 with Trusty kernel and rsyslog version
> 5.8.6-1ubuntu8.9), so I used the file below instead - see :
> http://www.rsyslog.com/discarding-unwanted-messages/
>
> # Discard unwanted message from vmtoolsd
> # Ubuntu open-vm-tools-lts-trusty has bug that writes message every 30sec:
> # "vmsvc[1070]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats."
> #
> # See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1322897
> #
> :msg, contains, "[ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats." ~
>
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