490 meg syslog, 797 meg messages files, after 1 week (my logfile rotation period)

[Mike Hodson]

Hello
I have a 4 slot usb card reader, generic, that works perfectly well as
a multi-LUN usb-storage device.

However, with the newest install of Dropline Gnome, which includes HAL
0.5.7, in one week alone my syslog file was 490 megabytes, and at the
same time, my messages file was almost 800 megs!

Not to mention, it is flooding any and all pertinent information out
of my dmesg buffer before I can even take a look at it!

How is one supposed to stop this insane amount of BS logging, every 5 seconds?!
I'm going mental right now, since I cannot load nautilus -without- hal loaded.

-rw-r-----   1 root  root  490M 2006-05-07 02:02 syslog.1
-rw-r-----   1 root  root  797M 2006-05-07 04:39 messages.1


This is from /proc/kmsg every 5 seconds:

<5>sde: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<5>SCSI device sde: 13280 512-byte hdwr sectors (7 MB)
<5>sde: Write Protect is off
<5>sde: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<5>SCSI device sde: 13280 512-byte hdwr sectors (7 MB)
<5>sde: Write Protect is off
<2>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
<4> unable to read partition table
<5>sdc: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<5>sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
<4>sdc : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
<4>sdc: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<5>sdf: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<5>sdc: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<5>sdf : READ CAPACITY failed.
<4>sdf : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
<4>sdf: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<5>sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
<4>sdc : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
<4>sdc: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<2>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
<4> unable to read partition table
<5>sdf: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<5>sdf : READ CAPACITY failed.
<4>sdf : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
<4>sdf: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<2>ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
<4> unable to read partition table
<5>sdd: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<5>sdd : READ CAPACITY failed.
<4>sdd : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
<4>sdd: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<5>sdd: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<5>sdd : READ CAPACITY failed.
<4>sdd : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
<4>sdd: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled