Comment 43 for bug 459730
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| Nathan Stratton Treadway (nathanst) wrote | #43 |
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Scott,
There are two issues discussed in this bug:
1) rsyslog emits a "Could no open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' " warning message message when it starts up, because /dev/xconsole doesn't exist.
2) after the daily log-rotation cron job, one's xconsole window suddenly goes dead.
You are correct that issue #1 is just a warning message; this situation can also be corrected "easily" by commenting out the xconsole section of the rsyslog config file.
Issue #2 is caused by the fact that a /dev/xconsole file (one that does exist) can be readable by rsyslog while it's still running as root during initial startup, but not when it tries to reopen the log files after a "reload syslog".
This second issue does cause actual trouble, at least for those of us who would like to actually use xconsole to monitor our logs. I'm not sure the "proper" fix for this condition, but it does seem worthwhile for the affected Ubuntu packages to work together to allow the "xconsole" application to work as intended.
(One could argue these two issues should have separate LP bugs... but when David opened LP: #612900 related to issue #2, it got marked as a duplicate of this one....)
Nathan