On Friday 29 January 2010 16:26:42 Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi. > > So NetworkManager was giving me lots of debugging output. Having a look > on Google shows it doesn't have log levels, so my only option (apart > from turning it off) was to redirect its log output to a separate file. > It's growing quickly (remind me to set up logrotate!) > > After I've removed NetworkManager from /var/log/messages, I'm left with: > Jan 29 23:45:59 orpheus .: > Jan 29 23:46:05 orpheus .: > Jan 29 23:46:11 orpheus .: > Jan 29 23:46:17 orpheus .: > Jan 29 23:46:23 orpheus .: > Jan 29 23:46:29 orpheus .: > > and so on every 6 seconds. I think the "." is supposed to be the > program name, and obviously after the ":" comes the message "". > > Every message seems to exactly correspond to this NetworkManager > message: > Jan 29 23:48:17 orpheus NetworkManager: <WARN> > killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting killswitch power: Method > "GetPower" with signature "" on interface > "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch" doesn't exist Jan 29 23:48:17 > orpheus NetworkManager: <WARN> killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting > killswitch power: dellWirelessCtl (/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl) not available > or executable. > > Note the reference to /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl (which really doesn't > exist!) If I symlink /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl to /bin/false, all the > log messages stop and the last one says: > > Jan 29 23:49:35 orpheus NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now disabled by > radio killswitch > > If I leave the symlink there, NetworkManager won't bring up wireless, so > it's a useless "hack". > > I don't really care about any killswitch operation, but I'm interested > in why I'm getting a "." message. NetworkManager bug or > misconfiguration error?
Run syslog-ng with the -d switch to enable it's debug output (normally to messages), or use -dd to get even more debug output. Beware, this adds up real quick, so don't run it for long like that. The output may give you more of a clue as to what syslog-ng thinks the incoming messages are. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
