Has anyone worked with the upstream installation for 5.5, and successfully told it to ->shut up<- when you pull your smart card out of the reader? Since you can't add parms in /etc/reader.conf, or in a file in /etc/reader.conf.d, I tried editing /etc/init.d/pcscd to tell it error level and above logging only, and it ignores it, and writes over and over that the card is "mute or absent", filling my logs. mark