[Wine] Does wine enable logging and if so can I disable it? And how do I remove log files?

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 18 15:21:57 CST 2010


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




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