Have recently started the acpid daemon to handle some ACPI events. Unfortunately I can't stop acpid from logging events to my /var/log/messages. I have no ACPI debugging enabled in my kernel 2.6.25 (in the ACPI section of it) and acpid is running without the (-d) debug flag. The old (-l) flag doesn't exist to tell acpid to log to /dev/null. The thermal events are the worst offenders, seeming to log events everytime the laptop fans change speed. I am using the default config files from the acpid package (default.sh). There doesn't seem to be anyone else in my situation as google and gentoo forums have very little. Here is a topic I started recently to explain more: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-708670-highlight-.html
you probably want to setup your system logging daemon to either send acpid events to separate log files and install logrotate to avoid excessive disk usage (always a good thing to have) or simply send them to /dev/null.
Please specify your current sys-power/acpid version in the Summary, and post your `emerge --info'. Also, provide relevant information in or attached to this bug report and refrain from pointing to external sources of information (I'm not going to read entire forums threads to discover and provide that information here, as that's up to you.)
I see. sys-power/acpid Installed versions: 1.0.6-r1(12:45:33 08/21/08) ------------------- laptop64 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:45:05 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc noinfo parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 artswrappersuid bash-completion battery berkdb bluetooth cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dhcp divx4linux dri dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread emboss evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif glitz gpm gstreamer hal i8x0 iconv ieee1394 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kerberos kipi mad md5sum midi mikmod mmx mng mozilla mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openexr opengl openmp oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdl session speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg tiff toolbar truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi x264 xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 hda-intel hdsp hdspm intel8x0m usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa nv via i810 i830 i915 v4l vmware" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 222207 [details, diff] patch adds ability to turn off logging completely I have no syslogd running on my laptop, so was really annoyed about acpid writing it's logs to console. I haven't found a way to turn syslog logging off, so i have written a small patch that adds ability to turn off logging completely. See "-N" option
Forwarded the patch to upstream for review/inclusion here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2980220&group_id=33140&atid=407341
<upstream quote> The latest version of acpid includes the "-l" option which turns on event logging. By default, in the later versions, event logging is off. Sounds like you guys have an older version of acpid. I recommend upgrading either to the latest that is here, or upgrading to the latest 2.0.x version which can be found here: </upstream quote> So closing as fixed by 2.0.3.
