Ubuntu
network-manager package

Don't output wpa_supplicant messages to syslog

Bug #36777 reported by j^ on 2006-03-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #51784: Executes wpa_supplicant in too verbose mode. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	network-manager (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

right now NM logs information printed out by wpa_supplicant to syslog, that is mostly information like the network quality,
finding new networks etc, all this is not needed in syslog in normal operation and a waist of diskspace and battery since
it causes disk usage...

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j^ (j) wrote on 2006-03-26: silence those messages

silence those messages Edit (665 bytes, text/plain)

attched patch only prints those messages if WPA_SUPPLICANT_DEBUG is defined.

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j^ (j) wrote on 2006-03-26: Re: [PATCH] silence wpa_supplicant messages in syslog

upon further investigation it might be better to just
pass -d instead of -dd or even no debug option at all to
wpa_supplicant.
its also in network-manager-0.6.1/src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c
argv[1] = "-dd";
could be
argv[1] = "-d";
or removed all together.