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

[Forest]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:39:05 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

>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.

Thanks. I look forward to whatever insight you come up with.