Plex Media Server update now litters /var/log/messages with "Got nothing for:" messages

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.23.1.4571-6119e8eed
Player Version#:
Yesterday I updated to the latest version with my CentOS 8.3.2011 system (plexmediaserver version 1.23.1.4571-6119e8eed). Now I notice that every 20 minutes there are numerous lines documented in /var/log/messages.

They are all similar to:
May 26 22:43:04 ares sh[1447776]: Got nothing for: Series Xxxx

Any thoughts on how to suppress this from going to the system log?

Michael

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May i see the server DEBUG log files?

Can you also share exactly how the files are named and structured ?

Those items going into your system log is because there’s a config change somewhere. Under normal operation, Those stdout & stderr messages disappear.

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ChuckPa, the server log files are about 6MB.

What’s the best way to get them for you to see? Alternatively, is there something I can search for to be more specific about what to show you?

Michael

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Can confirm that I am seeing the same issue. I am using Fedora 33 running plex 1.23.3.4707

Upgrading to 1.23.4.4805 to see if that resolves it.
I can easily configure syslogD to ignore these lines but woudl prefer to get it fixed at the root level.
Plex does not put any other log lines into /var/log/messages

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@Anthony-Desmarais

Are you logging everything to syslog (SYSLOG=TRUE environment variable) ?
stdout and stderr are normally discarded.

The service control file has not been changed in a very long time. Was an Override placed?

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@ChuckPa
Where is the environment variable set?
Running “env | grep SYSLOG” gives me nothing.
Also in the Plex Media Server directory I run " cat Preferences.xml | grep SYSLOG" and i get nothing so there is nothing in the preferences to set logging to syslog.

Cannot say I have editted the service control file (if by that you mean /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service).
Here is what it contains:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY!
#
# Plex Media Server's variables can be customized by creating an 'overide.conf'
# file using 'systemctl edit plexmediaserver' which will create the following;
# /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d/override.conf
#
# An example of the override.conf would be as follows if you wished to edit
# your user, group, temp directory, or app support directory (without the leading #)
#
# [Service]
# Environment="TMPDIR=/path/to/new/tmp"
# Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/home/myusername/Library/Application Support"
# User=myusername
# Group=mygroup
#

[Unit]
Description=Plex Media Server
After=network.target network-online.target

[Service]
Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support"
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6
Environment=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Environment=LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}"'
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '\
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_VENDOR="$(grep ^NAME= /etc/os-release | awk -F= "{print \\$2}" | tr -d \\" )" \
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_DEVICE="PC" \
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_MODEL="$(uname -m)" \
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_PLATFORM_VERSION="$(grep ^VERSION= /etc/os-release | awk -F= "{print \\$2}" | tr -d \\" )" \
"/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server"'
Type=simple
User=plex
Group=plex
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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