I could find where the log messages were going, so I disabled syslog logging in the source and rebuilt sm-notify.
apt-get source nfs-utils
The find the following lines in utils/statd/sm-notify.c and comment them out:
log_syslog = 1; openlog("sm-notify", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
Then rebuild with dpkg-buildpackage -B (or whatever) and install the resulting nfs-common deb file.
For good measure, I also edited /etc/init/statd.conf to redirect the output of sm-notify to a spare tty (/dev/tty12 in my case)
I could find where the log messages were going, so I disabled syslog logging in the source and rebuilt sm-notify.
apt-get source nfs-utils
The find the following lines in utils/statd/ sm-notify. c and comment them out:
log_syslog = 1;
openlog( "sm-notify" , LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
Then rebuild with dpkg-buildpackage -B (or whatever) and install the resulting nfs-common deb file.
For good measure, I also edited /etc/init/ statd.conf to redirect the output of sm-notify to a spare tty (/dev/tty12 in my case)