lirc does not spam the log if correctly configured. The repeated messages is a actually a feature since it's an easy way to detect status when configuring and hot-plugging a device.
The basic issue here is if lirc is pulled in as a dependency. It should not, it's designed to be used by users which actually have the need. The only rdepends I find in Sid is a Recommends in the vdr package. I'll file an issue about that. Once this is fixed, no-one will have lirc installed "by accident" so to speak. For users which does not use lirc there are two options. One is to remove the package completely, this should be possible on all installations since there are no hard rdepends, just a Recommends in the vdr package. The other is to disable lircd.socket and lircd.uinput using systemctl. This is nothing special, it's standard system service configuration. Besides the R: lirc in the vdr package I thus still don't see any actual bug here. What *could* be considered is to add some info to the logged message about disabling services to get rid of it. Allowing a unused service to continue to run as root without spamming the log is wrong for security and performance reasons. Hence, just writing the log message once is IMHO not a viable alternative. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768291 Title: lirc is flooding the syslog with two lines each second To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/1768291/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
