From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 17:54:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3048416A402 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:54:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEC413C457 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:54:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 15325 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2007 17:54:31 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Apr 2007 17:54:31 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id F1E042842D; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:54:29 -0400 (EDT) To: "James Seward" References: <200704260307.13286.david@vizion2000.net> <200704261434.00465.david@vizion2000.net> <44mz0uajod.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> <200704270714.40992.david@vizion2000.net> <720051dc0704270733l33f7e680j1588d2ad0b00a95e@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:54:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <720051dc0704270733l33f7e680j1588d2ad0b00a95e@mail.gmail.com> (James Seward's message of "Fri\, 27 Apr 2007 15\:33\:11 +0100") Message-ID: <44hcr1u2i2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: var/log/messages umass da0 >6 how to stop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:54:32 -0000 "James Seward" writes: > I get this when I have my USB card reader plugged in (and empty). I'm > pretty sure it's hal (via KDE) which is responsible for the polling in > my case. My low-tech fix is to yank the USB cable out when I'm not > using the reader :) If there was a way to stop it filling up my syslog > though I'd love to know. Okay, that's a clue to the source. There seems to be a "KDE HAL Device Manager", which I assume (from its name) should be controlling this. Can you get into a configuration for that and see what you can do? [Sorry I can't help more now, but I don't use KDE, and my machine with a card reader is powered down at the moment.]