Amount of data written to syslog in Nx 5.1

Hi,

I just started using Nx 5.1 and it writes quite a lot to syslog even during normal times.
I want to see the behavior of other libraries, so I set the syslog level to "informational".
It is easy to use if it suppresses writing to syslog a little more.

Nx Witness Version: 5.1.0.37133

2023-07-07T14:25:15.345878+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: open '/proc/mounts' 0 --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.346230+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.346418+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/proc' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.346585+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/dev' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.346756+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/dev/pts' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.347062+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/run' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.348285+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.348919+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/mnt/share' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.349259+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/var/log' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.350182+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/mnt/config/area0' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.351106+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/mnt/config/area1' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.351872+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/kernel/security' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.353193+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/fs/cgroup/unified' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.354297+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.355348+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/fs/bpf' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.356431+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/fs/cgroup/rdma' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.357434+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/dev/hugepages' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.358361+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/dev/mqueue' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.359385+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/kernel/debug' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.361258+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/kernel/tracing' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.362631+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/kernel/config' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.362938+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/media/ssd' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.371265+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: open '/media/ssd/HD Witness Media/bc8931be-472b-23d3-dbec-dfa6fbf6a939.tmp' 65 --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.373440+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: totalSpace '/media/ssd/HD Witness Media' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.373680+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: open '/proc/mounts' 0 --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.374602+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.376033+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/proc' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.377139+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/dev' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.378203+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/dev/pts' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.379133+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/run' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.379807+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.380485+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/mnt/share' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.381080+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/var/log' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.381499+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/mnt/config/area0' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.382056+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/mnt/config/area1' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.382511+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/kernel/security' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.384699+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/fs/cgroup/unified' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.389418+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.389659+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/fs/bpf' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.389828+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/fs/cgroup/rdma' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.389963+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/dev/hugepages' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.390078+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/dev/mqueue' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.391784+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/kernel/debug' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.393263+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/kernel/tracing' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.395050+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/sys/kernel/config' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.396099+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: fileInfo '/media/ssd' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.407164+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: open '/opt/networkoptix/mediaserver/var/data/bc8931be-472b-23d3-dbec-dfa6fbf6a939.tmp' 65 --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.407846+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: totalSpace '/opt/networkoptix/mediaserver/var/data' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.408917+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/media/ssd/HD Witness Media' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:15.410011+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/opt/networkoptix/mediaserver/var/data' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:16.167513+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/media/ssd/HD Witness Media' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:16.168204+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/opt/networkoptix/mediaserver/var/data' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:18.240937+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/media/ssd/HD Witness Media' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:18.241365+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/opt/networkoptix/mediaserver/var/data' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:18.242010+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/media/ssd/HD Witness Media' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:18.243190+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/opt/networkoptix/mediaserver/var/data' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:18.244110+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/media/ssd/HD Witness Media' --> 0
2023-07-07T14:25:18.244387+09:00 localhost <daemon.info> root-tool[10170]: freeSpace '/media/ssd/HD Witness Media' --> 0

Campbell Steven

July 10, 2023 22:19

Yeah this bugs me too, would be good if it could be suppressed by default or just go to it's own logfile.

Scott Truman

April 12, 2024 19:38

Yes, how do we turn off this logging spam?

Ben Edwards

October 18, 2024 19:38

Any fix for this please?

Rick Sayre

November 07, 2024 20:44

On Ubuntu, this worked for me:

edit /etc/systemd/system/networkoptix-root-tool.service

insert this additional line in the [Service] section (4 stands for "warning" log level):

LogLevelMax=4

then reload and restart the service:

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl restart networkoptix-root-tool

and finally confirm that things started successfully; you should find the logs nice and clean now, especially w/ v6

$ systemctl status networkoptix-root-tool

November 08, 2024 07:35

Thank you very much, I will give this a go

March 22, 2025 21:35

NOTE - it appears that NxWitness undoes this with each update, in the most unfriendly and non-linuxy way - no opportunity to “use package/keep local/compare”, not even a .original or backup created

So your logfile fills up with crap again after every update until you re-do this process by hand

Amount of data written to syslog in Nx 5.1

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