Ubuntu
rsyslog package

  1. Bug #459730
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 459730

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Patrick Goetz (pgoetz) wrote :

Mathias Gug wrote on 2010-04-01:
> If /dev/xconsole doesn't exist rsyslog doesn't complain. So there is no real need to comment the section in /dev/xconsole.

Not true:
May 16 09:58:56 ibis rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]

I agree with inode77, for servers, which frequently run sans-X, this should just be commented out.

BTW: this is still and issue in lucid (10.4)

Similarly, mail should not be logged by default in /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog -- I'll file this as a separate bug report.