Missing /dev/xconsole causes rsyslog to stop as well as all other services
I'm running Ubuntu-10.04.04LTS in Hyper-V environments. I found that SSH, HTTP or any other service else stopped because the rsyslog daemon had died with the message unable to find the /dev/xconsole file.
I fixed it temporarily with the following.
FILE=/dev/xconsole
if [ -e $FILE ]; then echo "$FILE exists Carry on!"
else mknod -m 640 /dev/xconsole c 1 3 chown syslog:adm /dev/xconsole echo "Created $FILE."
fiThe problem is that I can not get rsyslog daemon to process these 8 lines when I restart the daemon.
Also restarting the daemon removes the /dev/xconsole file and we are back to all service stopped. In addressing this problem I have inserted the if--fi lines after the start and restart conditions in the rsyslog script. The problem is I do not get an echo to stdio. Does someone have an idea on how to make the rsyslog report to stdio when it creates the /dev/xconsole device?
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The reason this exists is because Ubuntu Server 12.04 incorrectly assumes you have xterminal installed. It may be a hang over from their desktop OS where it does perhaps exist by default.
Anyway, best thing to do is simply comment it out of /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf as follows:
# daemon.*;mail.*;\
# news.err;\
# *.=debug;*.=info;\
# *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsoleAnd viola, no more error.
BTW. I doubt that was causing it to die though.
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