Syslog on idle tty not possible . . .

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Sunday 10 January 2010, Ulrich Grün wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have Kubuntu 9.10 now. There's a few things that strikes me with
>  this edition. The problem I'd like to address here is the
>  inability to have kernel and other syslog messages displayed on
>  tty 10 (or 11 or 12). All I get is a blinking cursor . . .
> I have the same code in /etc/syslog.conf which looks like this:
>  (until 9.10, this worked fine).
> 
> /etc/syslog.conf:

Are you sure? You may want to have a look in /etc/syslog.d/

> # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a
>  virtual # console I usually leave idle.
> #
> kern.*;\
> 	kern.=crit;\
> 	kern.=err;\
> 	kern.=alert;\
> 	kern.=emerg;\
> 	kern.=panic;	/dev/tty10
> 
> daemon,mail.*;\
> 	news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
> 	*.=debug;*.=info;\
> 	*.=notice;*.=warning	/dev/tty11
> 
> # Orginale Konfiguration:
> daemon,mail.*;\
> 	news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
> 	*.=debug;*.=info;\
> 	*.=notice;*.=warn	/dev/tty12
> 
> 
> 
> If someone has a clue,

See the output of "dpkg -L rsyslog".

> I'd be very grateful. What am I without a
>  good and available syslog!?

It's working here...

  --Reinhold