inhibit-report-info.rst

Inhibit output of informative messages

Since Modules v4.2, additional module load or unload triggered by the load or the unload of a modulefile are reported to the user to help understand what happened automatically. These informative messages may not be desired sometimes and here is a proposed way to inhibit them.

Implementation

Starting version v4.3, a verbosity configuration option is introduced to increase or decrease the variety of the messages produced by the module command. To inhibit the output of the info-level messages, the concise verbosity level should be selected:

$ module config verbosity concise

For v4.2 versions, a site-specific configuration script is proposed to inhibit the output of the info-level messages.

../../example/inhibit-report-info/siteconfig.tcl

Compatible with Modules v4.2

Installation (only for version older than v4.3)

Create site-specific configuration directory if it does not exist yet:

$ mkdir

Then copy there the site-specific configuration script of this recipe:

$ cp example/inhibit-report-info/siteconfig.tcl /

Note

Defined location for the site-specific configuration script may vary from one installation to another. To determine the expected location for this file on your setup, check the modulecmd.tcl script:

$ grep '^set g_siteconfig ' $MODULES_CMD

Usage example

With a bare bar modulefile:

../../example/inhibit-report-info/modulefiles/bar

And a foo modulefile that pre-requires bar:

../../example/inhibit-report-info/modulefiles/foo

Enable the modulepath where the example modulefiles are located:

$ module use example/inhibit-report-info/modulefiles

Load foo with auto handling mode enabled. The info-level message inhibition should let foo load quiet:

$ module load --auto foo
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