Re: Network Manager is too verbose in syslog

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 18:51 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Alexander Skwar <listen alexander skwar name> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> This has been discussed a number of times but I can't remember exactly
> why that level of debugging was needed but I do remember that the
> reason was a good one  ;-)

We'll be toning down the debug level (and making it changeable with
SIGUSR1 or something like that) soon.  That will likely be backported to
0.6.x

Dan


> An alternative would be to grab the source deb, edit the source to
> change it from -dd to -d (or no debugging if you want) and rebuild the
> package or open a ticket on launchpad asking the maintainer there to
> reduce the level of debugging.
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