[Bug 459730] Re: rsyslog doesn't create /dev/xconsole

[Peter Lemieux]

Having just encountered this on a copy of 12.04 Server running on a
virtual machine, I endorse Kenyon Ralph's approach in post 33 above.  I
don't intend to run X on this machine, so it's easiest to comment out
the part at the end of /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf that pipes some
output to /dev/xsession.

I think the server version of this file should have the pipe to xsession
disabled by default.  Ubuntu Server doesn't ship with a version of X so
the current 50-default.conf file conflicts with the basic configuration
of the distribution.

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Title:
  rsyslog doesn't create /dev/xconsole

Status in “rsyslog” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: rsyslog

  Looks like this was missed in the move to upstart.

  This function was called in init.d/rsyslog start:

  create_xconsole() {
          if [ ! -e /dev/xconsole ]
          then
                  mknod -m 640 /dev/xconsole p
                  chown root:adm /dev/xconsole
                  [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon /dev/xconsole
          fi
  }

  I can't find any reference to it now. If this is old school then it should be re
  moved from the config.

  rsyslog:
    Installed: 4.2.0-2ubuntu5

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