From 0b3cefb40d223ad2482b8ddfeb2928fe5de826d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pete <petiepooo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:38:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Silence error on lock attempt

Silence the error when attempting to create the lockfile fails.  Diagnostics are still printed every 100 failures, but this single line is filling about 90% of /var/log/messages on deployed systems.
---
 lib/lib.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/lib.sh b/lib/lib.sh
index bb1241a..15f2e69 100644
--- a/lib/lib.sh
+++ b/lib/lib.sh
@@ -643,8 +643,8 @@ register_networkd_reloader() {
         # If the redirect fails, most likely because the target file
         # already exists and -o noclobber is in effect, $? will be set
         # nonzero.  If it succeeds, it is set to 0
-        echo $$ > "${lockfile}"
-	# shellcheck disable=SC2320
+        2>/dev/null echo $$ > "${lockfile}"
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2320
         registered=$?
         [ $registered -eq 0 ] && break
         sleep 0.1