Missing /dev/xconsole causes rsyslog to stop as well as all other services
- by George Van Tuyl
We are running Ubuntu-10.04.04LTS in Hyper-V environments.
We found that the services ssh http or anything else stopped because the rsyslog daemon had died with the message unable to find the /dev/xconsole file.
I fixed it temporarily with the following.
FILE=/dev/xconsole
if [ -e $FILE ]; then
echo "$FILE exists Carry on!"
else
mknod…