[HTTPS-Everywhere] Message spam on stdout/stderr

Jan Larres jan at majutsushi.net
Mon Jul 7 21:43:22 PDT 2014


Hi,

I am not sure when this started as I only noticed it recently, but HTTPS
Everywhere prints out a lot of these messages on stdout or stderr:

Jul 08 16:37:27 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:27 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:32 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:33 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:37 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:38 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:42 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:43 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:47 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:48 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:52 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:
Jul 08 16:37:53 vanadis gnome-session[4274]: SSL Observatory: Cert submission failure 0:

As you can see these messages are generated quite frequently. This makes
the X session logs less useful as it may push out actually important
messages, it makes the log files bigger and it may prevent the disk from
going to sleep. It also doesn't even tell you what's actually wrong. It
would be nice if there was a way to get rid of these messages.

Cheers,
-Jan



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