[Syslog-ng-maintainers] [HEADSUP] dropping xconsole support from default rsyslog configuration

[Michael Biebl]

I'm CCing the maintainers of syslog-ng and inetutils-syslogd.
They also ship a configuration for xconsole.
Maybe they are interested in doing the same change as in rsyslog and
drop that from their config.

Am 08.11.2015 um 22:55 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Hi,
> 
> when first packaging the rsyslog package for Debian back in 2007, I
> based the default configuration in /etc/rsyslog.conf on what was shipped
> in sysklogds /etc/syslog.conf back at the time.
> 
> 
> This includes the following rule:
> 
> # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility.  To use it,
> # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
> #
> #    $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
> #
> # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
> #      busy site..
> #
> daemon.*;mail.*;\
>         news.err;\
>         *.=debug;*.=info;\
>         *.=notice;*.=warn       |/dev/xconsole
> 
> 
> xconsole support is a rather exotic feature, the majority of our users
> don't actually use it and benefit from having this rule enabled by
> default. Logging to a pipe where no process is reading from also has the
> downside that rsyslog repeatedly re-tries, leading to issues as [1].
> 
> I therefor plan to drop this rule from the default rsyslog.conf and ship
> it as an example in /usr/share/doc/rsyslog/examples/xconsole.conf which
> users can drop into /etc/rsyslog.d/.
> I'll update the instructions in README.Debian accordingly.
> 
> What I'm not quite sure yet is, if I should add a NEWS entry for that. I
> guess for most users it would just be useless noise during the upgrade
> process. But I'm willing to add it if others think it's useful to have.
> 
> Thoughts/Comments welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745492
> 


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