ah, thanks a lot! On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:55 AM, SZALAY Attila < sasa@pheniscidae.tvnetwork.hu> wrote:
Hi All!
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:42 -0500, fedora fedora wrote:
So what exactly does "dropped='pipe(/dev/xconsole)=5093'" mean? The load of this server is not heavy at all, i guess most of these messages are firewall logs, why so many logs got dropped?
I think that this is because nobody listen on the other end of that pipe.
The /dev/xconsole pipe is a traditional pipe for log readers in X system. The last time when I see a program reading that file is not after 1998. That program write the log messages to the X console when nobody logged in.
I think you can safely remove that destination especially if you not use it. :)
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