This issue still exists on Ubuntu 13.10. It was mentioned above that the message in /var/log/syslog is just a warning, and can be ignored, but note that the syslog actually speaks of an "error":
Dec 9 04:14:00 xxxx rsyslogd-2039: Could not open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Dec 9 04:14:00 xxxx rsyslogd-2124: CONFIG ERROR: could not interpret master config file '/etc/rsyslog.conf'. [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2124 ]
Not easy for a regular user to know what errors are serious and which ones are not. Would be better if syslog messages were clear on this.
This issue still exists on Ubuntu 13.10. It was mentioned above that the message in /var/log/syslog is just a warning, and can be ignored, but note that the syslog actually speaks of an "error":
Dec 9 04:14:00 xxxx rsyslogd-2039: Could not open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http:// www.rsyslog. com/e/2039 ] conf'. [try http:// www.rsyslog. com/e/2124 ]
Dec 9 04:14:00 xxxx rsyslogd-2124: CONFIG ERROR: could not interpret master config file '/etc/rsyslog.
Not easy for a regular user to know what errors are serious and which ones are not. Would be better if syslog messages were clear on this.