Syslog on idle tty not possible . . .

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Sunday 10 January 2010, Ulrich Grün wrote:
> Also schrieb Reinhold Rumberger am Sonntag, 10. Januar 2010 
23:17:01:
> > On Sunday 10 January 2010, Ulrich Grün wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> 
> <--->
> 
> > > /etc/syslog.conf:
> >
> > Are you sure? You may want to have a look in /etc/syslog.d/
> 
> There's no /etc/syslog.d/ on my system. I edited the
>  /etc/syslog.conf that was there allready.

Sorry, typo. I meant /etc/rsyslog.d/ (see dpkg output below).

> > See the output of "dpkg -L rsyslog".
> 
> It says:
> root at phaedon-kubuntu:~# dpkg -L rsyslog
<snip>

As Tom wrote, that should have been hint enough...
Obviously make sure that the syslog daemon is being started at boot-
time.
The /etc/syslog.conf is probably a leftover from a previous version 
of Ubuntu.
 
  --Reinhold