Comment 56 for bug 459730

This has been fixed with:

rsyslog (8.14.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove logging to /dev/xconsole from the default rsyslog configuration.
    It is a rarely used feature and causes rsyslog to repeatedly retry if
    there is noone reading from /dev/xconsole. Instead ship the configuration
    as example files and add instructions to README.Debian how one can
    re-enable support for xconsole. (Closes: #745492, #783687)
  * Remove section about sysklogd from README.Debian, sysklogd is not really
    relevant anymore nowadays.
  * Ship an example file for logging to the console on tty8 which can be
    dropped into /etc/rsyslog.d instead of having it as comment in
    /etc/rsyslog.conf.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:11:11 +0100