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

[Scott Moser]

For what its worth, this bug is just a warning.
If you see these messages in /var/log/rsyslog, you can safely ignore them.
They are simply rsyslog saing that /dev/xconsole does not exist, and then going on with life.  This happens on perfectly functioning systems.

If your system crashes and these are the last messages in that log it is
because the last thing written was when rsyslog started, and the crash
logged nothing there.

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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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