wine users - Feb 2010 - Does wine enable logging and if so can I disable it? And how do I remove log files?

Thanks. Questions in title.

Susan Cragin wrote:
> Thanks. Questions in title.
Wine's "logging" is nothing more than printing messages to stderr.
The
only way you get a log file is if you redirect stderr to a file, like so:

 wine program.exe &>wine.log

Since you create the log files, they're easy to remove with:

 rm wine.log

or some such command.

If you don't want any output at all, set the WINEDEBUG environment
variable to -all, like so:

WINEDEBUG=-all wine program.exe

Then none of the FIXMEs, ERRs, TRACEs, etc. will get printed to stderr.

Chip

Charles Davis <cdavis at mymail.mines.edu> wrote:
>
>Susan Cragin wrote:
>> Thanks. Questions in title.
>Wine's "logging" is nothing more than printing messages to
stderr. The
>only way you get a log file is if you redirect stderr to a file, like so:
>
> wine program.exe &>wine.log
>
>Since you create the log files, they're easy to remove with:
>
> rm wine.log
>
>or some such command.
>
>If you don't want any output at all, set the WINEDEBUG environment
>variable to -all, like so:
>
>WINEDEBUG=-all wine program.exe
>
>Then none of the FIXMEs, ERRs, TRACEs, etc. will get printed to stderr.
>
And it makes troubleshooting very hard...

If you are getting a bunch of fixmes you can always turn of the
'channel'

WINEDEBUG=-richedit wine program.exe

should shut down all reporting for richedit.

James McKenzie

Susan Cragin wrote:
Thanks. Questions in title.

Wine's "logging" is nothing more than printing messages to stderr.
The
only way you get a log file is if you redirect stderr to a file, like so:
wine program.exe &>wine.log
Since you create the log files, they're easy to remove with:
rm wine.log
or some such command.
If you don't want any output at all, set the WINEDEBUG environment
variable to -all, like so:
WINEDEBUG=-all wine program.exe
Then none of the FIXMEs, ERRs, TRACEs, etc. will get printed to stderr.
And it makes troubleshooting very hard...
If you are getting a bunch of fixmes you can always turn of the
'channel'
WINEDEBUG=-richedit wine program.exe
should shut down all reporting for richedit.
James McKenzie

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Aren't these all things that have to be turned on in the first place, with
winedbg?
I was looking for an automatic and insidious logger like linux's rsyslog. 
Here's my problem. I'm running a program (NaturallySpeaking) that
creates lots of useless error message and has the capacity to create huge logs.
Rsyslog was killing it.
I turned of linux's logging with 
sudo service rsyslog stop
and NatSpeak started running much better, without freezing/crashing.  
So, I thought there might be an equivalent Windows logger that ran in wine, and
a similar command to kill it.
Susan