Hello Nate, So the warnings in my /var/log/warn or just warnings then. Nothing is wrong? Below is an excerpt from my /etc/syslong-ng/syslong-ng.conf.in file in SuSE 10.0 . If I understood correctly, I should just comment out the below excerpt. And that will not have any negative affects. Sorry for my ignorance. I first started reading about syslog-ng three days ago. ------------- # # Most warning and errors on tty10 and on the xconsole pipe: # destination console { file("/dev/tty10" group(tty) perm(0620)); }; log { source(src); filter(f_console); destination(console); }; destination xconsole { pipe("/dev/xconsole" group(tty) perm(0400)); }; log { source(src); filter(f_console); destination(xconsole); }; ------------ George On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:47:04 -0800, "Nate Campi" <nate@campin.net> said:

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:05:44PM -0800, George wrote:

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Hello,

I am getting the following in my /var/log/warn file at each bootup. What is it about and how do I fix it?

Jan 26 06:26:52 dns1 syslog-ng[3430]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/xconsole Jan 26 06:26:52 dns1 syslog-ng[3430]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/tty10

I have SuSE 10.0 installed on a IBM X330 (8654-51Y) eserver xseries with a dual Pentium III (x84) and a S3 Savage 4 video card.

You can explicitly set perms on files, syslog-ng sets more restrictive perms on file for security reasons - but you usually don't want device files changed from their defaults.

Best answer: remove your destination and log clauses that reference the xconsole - you almost surely don't use it anyways. -- Nate

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