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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Cape Canaveral
Device: Kindle Scribe
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If you would like to stop Kindle sending stuff to Amazon, here is how you can do it:

Warning! Before firmware update, restore usr/bin/showlog binary, otherwise the update's gonna fail.


How to disable logging:
1) Backup files
/usr/sbin:
syslog-ng (syslog server and logging daemon)
loginfo (pulls specific info from syslog)
tinyrot (rotates log files to be pulled from remote servers)
/usr/bin:
showlog (specifies which log file to send)

2) Link log files to null location:
Code:
mntroot rw
ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/loginfo
ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/tinyrot
ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/bin/showlog
mntroot ro
How to Revert back:
Code:
mntroot rw
mv /usr/sbin/syslog-ng~ /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
mv /usr/sbin/loginfo~ /usr/sbin/loginfo
mv /usr/sbin/tinyrot~ /usr/sbin/tinyrot
mv /usr/bin/showlog~ /usr/bin/showlog
mntroot ro
Disable user store reset and shipping mode:
Code:
mntroot rw
ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/userstore_reset
ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/userstore_clean
ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/shipping_mode
mntroot ro
Restore:
Code:
mntroot rw
mv /usr/sbin/userstore_reset~ /usr/sbin/userstore_reset
mv /usr/sbin/userstore_clean~ /usr/sbin/userstore_clean
mv /usr/sbin/shipping_mode~ /usr/sbin/shipping_mode
mntroot ro
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