Re: Bug#2683: /dev/xconsole
On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > It's not clear to me that MAKEDEV should be making named pipes. We could
> > have a MAKEPIPE script for that :-) . Doesn't some X package make this?
>
> You're right. xbase, the provider of xconsole, should make the
> /dev/xconsole fifo in its postint. I'm filing a bug report with this
> message. For benefit of the xbase maintainer, the command, once again,
> is:
> mknod -m 644 /dev/xconsole p
/dev/xconsole is in the default /etc/syslog.conf file as follows:
auth.*;daemon.*;mail.*;news.crit;news.err;news.notice;*.=debug;*.=info;\
*.=notice;*.=warn;cron.none |/dev/xconsole
(I put the line break in for this message)
If /dev/xconsole isn't present when syslogd is started, it produces an
error message. I think syslogd should be responsible for making this pipe
if this line is to stay in its default configuration file.
Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk
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