Re: [syslog-ng] where does this mean in log status

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 10:36 -0500, fedora fedora wrote:

I have a syslog-ng server running and i noticed in the stats info there are some big number of log gets dropped, see below.

Log statistics; dropped='pipe(/dev/xconsole)=542760'

Can someone tell me what exactly is /dev/xconsole? what it drops so many logs?

Probably because you are not running the xconsole utility. And in case you don't, you should remove that from the configuration. -- Bazsi