Network Manager is too verbose in syslog

[Alexander Skwar <listen alexander skwar name>]

Hello.

I'm using network-manager-0.6.2-0ubuntu7 on Ubuntu Dapper 6.0.6.

In my syslog, I find *A* *LOT* of messages like this:

Jun 30 23:07:06 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9561): 8 b9 ff bb 4b c0 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 84 b1 31 5c 74 10 71 81 69 c1 f4 9b 20 3e 5b 0b 00 20 98 63 a7 c1 0b 44 ab a7 ca 6b 83 fb 56 c0 42 03 b7 8e 70 ee b4 6f 07 ff 49 0e 77 9f 0e d4 a1 cc
Jun 30 23:07:06 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9561): IEEE 802.1X RX: version=1 type=3 length=127
Jun 30 23:07:06 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9561):   EAPOL-Key type=254
Jun 30 23:07:06 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9561): WPA: RX EAPOL-Key - hexdump(len=131): 01 03 00 7f fe 03 a1 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 75 da c2 bc 04 56 ed 0b d0 93 22 ba c4 eb 95 bd 61 6d ef bb 67 f7 d0 8d b2 46 a8 b9 ff bb 4b b4 61 6d ef bb 67 f7 d0 8d b2 46 a8 b9 
 ff bb 4b c0 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 84 b1 31 5c 74 10 71 81 69 c1 f4 9b 20 3e 5b 0b 00 20 98 63 a7 c1 0b 44 ab a7 ca 6b 83 fb 56 c0 42 03 b7 8e 70 ee b4 6f 07 ff 49 0e 77 9f 0e d4 a1 cc

This seems to be debug information from NetworkManager, I suppose.

Well - I don't care that much about those messages. And the huge amount of
messages make it hard to catch other information.

Because of that, I'd really like to make nm be quite less verbose.

Or is it wpa_supplicant, which is "spamming" my syslog? Because of the "NetworkManager: "
tag, I'd think that it is nm, though.

In /etc/default/wpasupplicant, I've got:

ENABLED=1
OPTIONS="-iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dmadwifi -w"

And in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:

update_config=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
         ssid="MeinVerschlossenesNetz"
         psk=aee1a30[...]
}


BUT:

alexander knospe:/var/log$ ps awux|grep -i wpa
root      9441  0.0  0.1   3340  1396 ?        S    20:57   0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -dd -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global

Hmm... Those "-dd" are the cause of the debug messages. "Fine". Why
is wpa_supplicant executed this way?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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