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 -m 640 /dev/xconsole c 1 3
     chown syslog:adm /dev/xconsole
     echo "Created $FILE."
fi

The problem is that I can not get rsyslog daemon to process these 8 lines when I restart the daemon.

Also restarting the daemon removes the /dev/xconsole file and we are back to all service stopped. In addressing this problem I have inserted the if--fi lines after the start and restart conditions in the rsyslog script. The problem is I do not get an echo to stdio. Does someone have an idea on how to make the rsyslog report to stdio when it creates the /dev/xconsole device.

Thanks

George Van Tuyl