New comment by jovanlanik on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/44912#issuecomment-1625625388 Comment: Seems like metalog with the `-v` flag outputs all logs to stdout and stdout is logged back to metalog, the message continues getting logged again and again... ``` Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 16:25:06 [metalog] Jul 07 15:47:49 [sudo] pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by ( ``` I can think of a couple of solutions but the most similar result to current package is deleting the log directory : ``` post_install() { vsv metalog rm -rf "${DESTDIR}/etc/sv/metalog/log" } ``` @classabbyamp Maybe the `vsv` function could have a flag to opt-out of logging? @teldra What do you think?