Package: rsyslog Version: 2.0.0-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Just like old syslog did, rsyslog should create the /dev/xconsole fifo with root:adm permissions so that users part of the adm group can read it.
Ritesh -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages rsyslog depends on: ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages rsyslog recommends: ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility -- no debconf information
--- /tmp/rsyslog 2008-02-08 18:27:02.000000000 +0530 +++ /etc/init.d/rsyslog 2008-02-08 18:28:22.000000000 +0530 @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ if [ ! -e /dev/xconsole ] then mknod -m 640 /dev/xconsole p + chown root:adm /dev/xconsole fi }