Re: [syslog-ng] dropped log?

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. :)