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rsyslog package

  1. Bug #459730
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 459730

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Kenyon Ralph (kralph) wrote : Re: [Bug 459730] Re: rsyslog doesn't create /dev/xconsole

On 2011-12-01T09:20:27-0000, "<email address hidden>" <email address hidden> wrote:
> Same problem in 10.04 64 bit.
> I tried something: I added "touch /dev/xconsole" in
> /etc/gdm/Init/Default at the beginning of the file.
>
> It seems to solve the issue,
>
> though I am not sure it is a good thing to proceed as well.

The best thing to do is to comment out the lines referencing
/dev/xconsole in the rsyslog configuration file, if you don't use
xconsole. Like this:

#daemon.*;mail.*;\
# news.err;\
# *.=debug;*.=info;\
# *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole

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Kenyon Ralph