When the clients collects data to send the server, one of the commands issues is ifconfig. Where can I go to edit this so that the ifconfig becomes "ifconfig 2>/dev/null"?
It turns out that systems with network interfaces that have mac addresses larger than 8 bytes cause ifconfig to print the following message to standard error:
Ifconfig uses the ioctl access method to get the full address information, which limits hardware addresses to 8 bytes. Because Infiniband address has 20 bytes, only the first 8 bytes are displayed correctly. Ifconfig is obsolete! For replacement check ip.
So, if I can edit the command list so that standard error is sent to /dev/null, my xymonclientlog will not fill up.
-- Isaac Traxler AIX,Linux Admin Louisiana State University, LONI traxler at lsu.edu High Performance Computing 225-578-1923 Storage & Infrastructure