Month: November 2017

  • Redirecting Signal Desktop’s log from syslog to a separate file

    After switching from the old Chrome app to the new Signal Desktop app, my syslog began to get spammed with lines containing stuff like “Sending a keepalive message”.

    They seemingly come from gnome-session, but it’s actually Signal operating under gnome-session. Not having the actual application name for filtering, I just made a slightly hackish /etc/rsyslog.d/20-redirect-signal.conf with the following contents:

    :msg,contains,"{\"name\":\"log\",\"hostname\":\"saegusa\"" -/var/log/signal-desktop.log 
    & stop

    (Where saegusa is my hostname; you should obviously change this to match yours.)