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

[Garrett Cooper]

2011/11/18 Eygene Ryabinkin <rea at freebsd.org>:
> Garrett, good day.
>
> Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:42:27PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
>> > Is there any counter reasoning about "having an interface marked as
>> > non-DHCP is not an error"?  I'm still not convinced with the benefit
>> > of having it show an error message.
>>
>> +1. I consider this to be debug noise.
>
> Well, what about the silent output from 'cc -o test test.c' when
> you have no file test.c or the compiler is absent?  It is the same
> thing (as I see it) and in this case will you expect that the binary
> 'test' will be compiled and ready for use or not?  I will, but this
> can be my personal delusion.

    This is different because you personally are running cc to do a
particular task. This noise is emitted unnecessarily by automated
tasks which are in the default system, which is more annoying for
standard users, like me.
    There's a reason why I also do this in every system I run:

$ svn diff etc/syslog.conf
Index: etc/syslog.conf
===================================================================
--- etc/syslog.conf     (revision 227492)
+++ etc/syslog.conf     (working copy)
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #      separators. If you are sharing this file between systems, you
 #      may want to use only tabs as field separators here.
 #      Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage.
-*.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit               /dev/console
+#*.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit              /dev/console
 *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err
/var/log/messages
 security.*                                     /var/log/security
 auth.info;authpriv.info                                /var/log/auth.log

    The point is that the defaults should match what people expect in
an operating system -- otherwise FreeBSD will be seen as an elitist
hipster OS.
Thanks,
-Garrett