# Disabling interface packet messages?

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-interface-packet-messages/3655>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [June 12, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-interface-packet-messages/3655 "2015-06-12T14:56:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Donaldson\_John](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Donaldson\_John](https://community.zeek.org/u/Donaldson_John)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-interface-packet-messages/3655/1 "2015-06-12T14:56:49Z")

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Is there any way to disable the ³X is not seeing any packets on interface  
Y²/³X is seeing packets again on interface Y² messages that run with the  
scheduled Cron jobs? I¹m monitoring a link which, naturally, has extended  
periods without any traffic, and these alerts clutter up my inbox and  
don¹t bring me much value.

John Donaldson

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Thayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@Daniel\_Thayer](https://community.zeek.org/u/Daniel_Thayer)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-interface-packet-messages/3655/2 "2015-06-12T16:19:59Z")

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You can set this in your broctl.cfg file:

StatsLogEnable=0

That will turn off those emails, but it will also turn off  
the functionality related to this (such as writing to the  
spool/stats.log file).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-interface-packet-messages/3655/3 "2022-05-06T15:42:46Z")

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