OpenWrt – Reduce Hostapd Verbosity : Kacang Bawang

A quick note about how to reduce the log level of hostapd, as it tends to dominate log entries in /var/log/messages.

Note: this is on OpenWrt 12.07

The ultimate configuration file for hostapd is placed in /var/run. This file is formed by /lib/wifi/hostapd.sh. In turn, it reads its input from /etc/config/wireless. This daisy chain was not obvious to me. I kept searching in /etc/ without results.

Anyhow, examination of /lib/wifi/hostapd.sh tells us that we need to add this to /etc/config/wireless:

# Levels (minimum value for logged events):
#  0 = verbose debugging
#  1 = debugging
#  2 = informational messages
#  3 = notification
#  4 = warning

config wifi-device radio0
  ...
  option log_level 4
  ...

# Levels (minimum value for logged events):

# 0 = verbose debugging

# 1 = debugging

# 2 = informational messages

# 3 = notification

# 4 = warning

config wifi-device radio0

...

option log_level 4

...

Kacang Bawang

OpenWrt – Reduce Hostapd Verbosity

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