I'm CCing the maintainers of syslog-ng and inetutils-syslogd. They also ship a configuration for xconsole. Maybe they are interested in doing the same change as in rsyslog and drop that from their config. Am 08.11.2015 um 22:55 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Hi, > > when first packaging the rsyslog package for Debian back in 2007, I > based the default configuration in /etc/rsyslog.conf on what was shipped > in sysklogds /etc/syslog.conf back at the time. > > > This includes the following rule: > > # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, > # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: > # > # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] > # > # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably > # busy site.. > # > daemon.*;mail.*;\ > news.err;\ > *.=debug;*.=info;\ > *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole > > > xconsole support is a rather exotic feature, the majority of our users > don't actually use it and benefit from having this rule enabled by > default. Logging to a pipe where no process is reading from also has the > downside that rsyslog repeatedly re-tries, leading to issues as [1]. > > I therefor plan to drop this rule from the default rsyslog.conf and ship > it as an example in /usr/share/doc/rsyslog/examples/xconsole.conf which > users can drop into /etc/rsyslog.d/. > I'll update the instructions in README.Debian accordingly. > > What I'm not quite sure yet is, if I should add a NEWS entry for that. I > guess for most users it would just be useless noise during the upgrade > process. But I'm willing to add it if others think it's useful to have. > > Thoughts/Comments welcome. > > Cheers, > Michael > > > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745492 > -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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