GrowlHelperApp Output in Console Log

[roobarb!]

Hi all,

Right, bit of a specific one this, so I was hoping you could help out!

I have an OS X Server machine with Growl running on my network. It's
headless, so it forwards it's notifications to my desktop Mac so I can
see when running tasks have been completed. However, as discussed in
this CocoaForge topic...

http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?=&p=88078

...Growl has a tendancy to fill the Console log with output when it
attempts to forward a notification to a machine that's off or asleep.
Is there any way around this, as the output is typically rather large
and makes scanning the Console log for 'genuine problems' a little
tricky. Here's an example:

May 14 11:36:14 titchy GrowlHelperApp[208]: Exception while forwarding
dictionary with selector registerApplicationWithDictionary:
(description of dictionary follows): [NSPortCoder
sendBeforeTime:sendReplyPort:] timed out (10232454099.555281
232454174.521166) 1\n{\n AllNotifications = (\n "Growl
update available",\n "User went idle",\n "User
returned"\n );\n AppLocation = {\n "file-data"
= {\n "_CFURLAliasData" = <00000000 01c20002
00010654 69746368 79000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000c421 5796482b 00000018 e3ec1247 726f776c 48656c70 65724170
702e6170 70000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000018 e420c44e
b8890000 00000000 0000ffff ffff0000 09200000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00095265 736f7572 63657300 00100008 0000c421 49860000
00110008 0000c44e aa790000 00010014 0018e3ec 0018e3e8 0018e3e7
0000f488 0000001c 00020053 54697463 68793a4c 69627261 72793a50
72656665 72656e63 6550616e 65733a47 726f776c 2e707265 6650616e
653a436f 6e74656e 74733a52 65736f75 72636573 3a47726f 776c4865
6c706572 4170702e 61707000 000e0026 00120047 0072006f 0077006c
00480065 006c0070 00650072 00410070 0070002e 00610070 0070000f
000e0006 00540069 00740063 00680079 0012004c 4c696272 6172792f
50726566 6572656e 63655061 6e65732f 47726f77 6c2e7072 65665061
6e652f43 6f6e7465 6e74732f 5265736f 75726365 732f4772 6f776c48
656c7065 72417070 2e617070 00130001 2f00ffff 0000>;\n
"_CFURLString" = "/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/
Resources/GrowlHelperApp.app";\n "_CFURLStringType" =
0;\n };\n };\n ApplicationIcon = <4d4d002a 00010008
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Any clues as to how I can cut this down?

TIA,

Andy.

[Evan Schoenberg]

On May 14, 2008, at 7:50 AM, roobarb! wrote:

Right, bit of a specific one this, so I was hoping you could help out!

I have an OS X Server machine with Growl running on my network. It's
headless, so it forwards it's notifications to my desktop Mac so I can
see when running tasks have been completed. However, as discussed in
this CocoaForge topic...

http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?=&p=88078

...Growl has a tendancy to fill the Console log with output when it
attempts to forward a notification to a machine that's off or asleep.
Is there any way around this, as the output is typically rather large
and makes scanning the Console log for 'genuine problems' a little
tricky. Here's an example:

I've just fixed this for Growl 1.1.3.  Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Cheers,

Evan

[roobarb!]

Blimey, that was fast!

Thanks very much - really appreciate it. :o)

All the best,

Andy.