The claim that the output is needed for support is specious. The messages in question are not very important. However, the messages filling the log *is* a very serious issue.
The entire method that NetworkManager is using to execute wpa_supplicant, to whit, hard coding options in an array in an obscure source file, is a bad move. It completely prevents the user from being able to do debugging by altering options (ironic, isn't it?), it eliminates the ability to execute other versions of the program during testing, it causes large amounts of unneeded crud to be spewed into syslog, thus preventing the user from seeing actual important messages in syslog (this is a serious security threat by the way since subsystems like logcheck get jammed up with the unneeded messages), etc. Ultimately this needs to be fixed. NetworkManager needs to either invoke programs based on configuration file information or needs to execute scripts -- hard coded inline in the code is not good architecture. Shorter term, I understand that some people might view not filling syslog with junk in a near-default configuration a "wishlist" item, but it is not a minor issue. This is a serious problem because it masks important log messages. I'd like to ask that someone at the very least patch the file to remove the -dd in the Ubuntu version of the package. -- Executes wpa_supplicant in too verbose mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/51784 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
