Annoying ERROR: 'wlan0' is not a DHCP-enabled interface

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Sun Dec 25 01:55:13 UTC 2011


2011/12/24 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org>:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> G> 2011/12/24 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org>:
> G> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:14:23AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> G> > D> On 12/24/2011 00:06, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> G> > D> > Do you suggest to adjust devd.conf in svn, or do you think that
> G> > D> > zillions of server FreeBSD installations should modify the default
> G> > D> > devd.conf to get rid of this spamming?
> G> > D>
> G> > D> There are zillions of FreeBSD servers with wlan interfaces?
> G> >
> G> > Current code spams console for any interfaces.
> G>
> G>     Is that because of...
> G>
> G> console.info                                   /var/log/console.log
>
> Okay, it would spam /var/log/messages. Or maybe you'd suggedt to shut
> it there, too?
>
> Any message about DHCP is absolutely irrelevent, and thus annoying on
> a box running static IP configuration. Disabling logging of entire
> syslog faclity is not a solution.

    Yeah. That's kind of what we're driving at in this discussion. I
was just noting where the chattiness was possibly coming from.
Thanks,
-Garrett


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