[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#860296: lirc is spamming syslog with messages

[Jörg Frings-Fürst]

Hello Alec,

On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:00:27 +0200 Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:43:19 +0200 
> =?utf-8?q?J=C3=B6rg_Frings-F=C3=BCrst?= <debian at jff-webhosting.net> wrote:
> 
>  >
>  > the same here.
>  >
>  > Lirc is installed as a dependency.
> 
> This is IMHO the basic problem. lirc should really never be installed as 
> a dependency (lirc-lib is another story). Installing lirc means 
> installing the server/service which as of now means running some 
> thousands lines of old code handling all sorts of user input as root. 
> This should only be done if you really need the server i. e., have IR 
> hardware attached. If not used, the server should be disabled or the 
> lirc package just removed.
> 

No, the basic problem is lircd every second log 2 lines. Roundabout
thats 222 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 = 575.424.000 bytes / month . And only
why lircd found no hardware.

This is absolutely unnecessary*, consumes resources, costs money and
reduces lifetime of the hard disks.

And why must every messages have to be logged twice?

>  > My suggestion would be to test for the requested devices at startup 
> once and
>  > then use the device hotplug to load the driver and to activate lirc.
> 
> This is not really possible since all sorts of hardware can be used for 
> IR reception. This includes generic USB devices such as FTDI chips and 
> e. g., serial ports where noit hotplugging isn't available.
> 
> As of now, lircd is using systemd socket activation and is started when 
> the fist client tries to connect. Untortunately, any application with 
> lirc support will try to connect and thus starts the server.
>

I think thats the requested functionality. But once again: Spamming the log
are unnecessary.

 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> --alec
> 
> 

CU
Jörg


* This is as nonsensical as if cups would log every second that it has 
  found no printer.
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