Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu1

wpa_supplicant is writing to syslog every couple of minutes. Example
output:

May 25 19:57:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 19:57:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: 
send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 19:59:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 19:59:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: 
send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:00:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 20:01:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 20:01:24 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: 
send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:03:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 20:03:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: 
send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:05:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 20:05:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: 
send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:05:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 20:07:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 20:07:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: 
send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:09:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 20:09:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: 
send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:10:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
May 25 20:13:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: message repeated 2 times: [ wlan0: 
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED ]
May 25 20:13:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: 
send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33

The message seems harmless as far as the network is concerned, meaning
there is no problem with the wifi connection. But it's spamming the
syslog, making it very difficult to find any other thing there, and it's
generating constant writes to disk, and an unnecessarily large syslog
file.

** Affects: wpasupplicant (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes

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