2010/1/15 <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Apparently it is that line in my config file, that make rsyslog unhappy: >> >> daemon.*;mail.*;\ >> news.err;\ >> *.=debug;*.=info;\ >> *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole > > my ubuntu laptop doesn't have /dev/xconsole
That's most likely because of the switch to native upstart jobs. The old SysV init script had an explicit mknod -m 640 /dev/xconsole p line. The new upstart job apparently not anymore. That is arguably a bug in the upstart job. (I've CC Michael Vogt, as he is responsible for rsyslog during the lucid cycle) > also, I thought that | was used to execute a program and send the > logmessage to stdin on that program We might argue about the usefulness of this, but it's mostly for historical reasons. The original syslog.conf had this entry for ages. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
