Annoying PackageKit messages on the terminals

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#1

Hi,

I always get messages like those below in my terminals, that obfuscate my typing.

How can I get rid of them (updated opensuse 11.2)?

I already reconfigured syslog to move PackageKit messags to a separate file (because the messages appeared in /var/log/messages too, and I hoped that was the source). But this did not help.

I’m ok with seeing severe error messages on the console, but not spam like PackageKit started…, stopped…

please help.

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 00:29:46 …
PackageKit: what-provides transaction /1130_cceaeeed_data from uid 1000 finished with success after 5203ms

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 00:30:06 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 00:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 00:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 00:39:55 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 00:40:18 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 01:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 01:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 02:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 02:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 03:31:50 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 03:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 04:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 04:32:12 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 05:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 05:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 06:31:50 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 06:32:12 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 07:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 07:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 07:45:29 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 07:45:50 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 08:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 08:32:12 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 08:58:10 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 08:58:32 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 09:04:53 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 09:05:17 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 09:26:20 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 09:26:44 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 09:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 09:32:12 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 09:50:36 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 09:50:58 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 10:14:25 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 10:14:47 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 10:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 10:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 11:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 11:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 12:32:54 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 12:33:16 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 13:31:49 …
PackageKit: daemon start

Message from syslogd@job5 at Mar 14 13:32:11 …
PackageKit: daemon quit

#2

over at the german linux-club forum user robi has solved my problem.

I moved my syslog filter in /etc/rsyslog.conf that sent PackageKit messags to a file before the “*.emerg *” line:

if      ($programname == 'PackageKit') then \
        -/var/log/packagekit.log;RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
if      ($programname == 'PackageKit')  then \
        ~

HTH