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

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Mon Sep 20 17:21:58 CEST 2010


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.


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Bazsi



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