[lxc-users] Why does lxc-monitor insist on logging to a file?

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:48:08AM -0700, Forest wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 10:51:16 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 08:09:56PM -0700, Forest wrote:
> >> I am not passing any command line options to lxc-monitor, and its manual
> >> says, "The default is no log."  Nevertheless, whenever I run it,
> >> lxc-monitord writes to lxc-monitord.log.
> >> 
> >> I have tools that regularly use lxc-monitor, and this log file has been
> >> slowly growing in size for who knows how long.  Passing -o /dev/null doesn't
> >> help.  How can I banish this file?
> >> 
> >> $ lxc-monitor --version
> >> 3.0.4
> >
> >Can you show how exactly you start lxc-monitor?  Which file exactly
> >is being created, and can you show a few of its lines?
> >
> >-o /dev/null ought to work, but maybe try -l none instead.
> 
> Neither of those work.

Hm, yeah, actually, confirmed on 3.0.3 at least.  The code is clearly
trying to not do that.  I'll have to play around with it a bit, unless
Christian knows offhand what's going on.