Bug#1053913: rsyslog: PrivateDevices=yes breaks forwarding messages to xconsole

[Michael Biebl]

Thanks for the bug report

Am 14.10.23 um 10:15 schrieb Sven Joachim:

Package: rsyslog
Version: 8.2310.0-1

For many years I have been following the recipe for forwarding messages
to xconsole, see "Logging to xconsole" section in README.Debian.

This stopped working after the upgrade to 8.2310.0-1, because with
PrivateDevices=yes rsyslogd gets its own /dev directory where there is
no /dev/xconsole.

Adding an override for this setting was not difficult, but the necessity
to do that should be added to README.Debian.

Could you try if adding
```
BindPaths=-/dev/xconsole
```
to the [Service] section in rsyslog.service fixes your issue?

Michael

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