Thanks for the pointer.
I see this behavior an 20+ virtualized Gentoo installations (XEN  
domains). I'll chech it.

Stefan

On 13.01.2009, at 14:26, John Drescher wrote:

>> And also /dev/tty12 on my system is not a large file just a device  
>> node.
>>
>> jmd0 john # ls -al /dev/tty12 -al
>> crw------- 1 root root 4, 12 Jan 13 08:09 /dev/tty12
>>
>
> One more comment about this.
>
> Do you have console output when you hit  ctrl-alt-f12
>
> if you do not I see the problem. The problem is that at some point you
> did not have a /dev/tty12 and that syslog-ng is writing to a file
> instead of sending the console messages to the console that you get
> when pressing ctrl-alt-f12
>
> To fix this.
>
> stop syslog-ng
>
> /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop
>
> jmd0 john # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop
> syslog-ng         |* Stopping syslog-ng...
>
> Then kill it to make sure it has quit (it did not on my system):
> jmd0 john # pkill syslog-ng
>
> then delete /dev/tty12
> jmd0 john # rm /dev/tty12
>
> Then create /dev/tty12 again
> jmd0 john # mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12
>
>
> Then restart syslog-ng
> jmd0 john # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart
> syslog-ng         |* Starting syslog-ng...
>
> John


Stefan Sorin Nicolin
http://nicolinux.org

---
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iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science
alumnus, usability guesspert and
overall big time visionary


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