bad defaults in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf

[Steve Langasek]

rsyslog includes the following commented-out example which is wrong:

#daemon,mail.*;\
# news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
# *.=debug;*.=info;\
# *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8

This doesn't work unless you prefix /dev/tty8 with '|'

Also, the following is uncommented by default:

daemon.*;mail.*;\
        news.err;\
        *.=debug;*.=info;\
        *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole

And xconsole is not installed by default, so this causes a warning on rsyslog startup:

Nov 6 01:50:03 virgil rsyslogd-2039: Could not open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]

The latter should just be commented out. The former is maybe something that should be fixed in the code (why should we need to specify a special '|' character for a device file?)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.