On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:57:58AM -0800, Ken Teague wrote: >> Sorry to route it this way but I don't wanna submit the bug into the wrong >> place. What creates the fifo /dev/xconsole? xbase-clients doesn't appear >> to pack it. Is this automatically created by some script? Thanks.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 03:06:01PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote: > > This might possibly be the proper province of xbase-clients, since it > > contains /dev/xconsole > > Hmm, I didn't notice that with 'dpkg -L xbase-clients |grep dev'. I also > checked the Packages section on www.debian.org and with the 'apt' info bot > in #Debian on irc.openprojects.net. Did you actually mean to say 'the > binary'? If I'm mistaking please let me know... and also how you found that > xbase-clients has /dev/xconsole. You misunderstood me. I meant that since xbase-clients USES /dev/xconsole, soe people might consider it the package's job to create that file. I didn't say the package creates that device file -- it presently does not. Please re-send the rest of your comments to -policy and/or -x so they can be discussed. BTW, the reason we use /dev/xconsole instead of /dev/console is because people who run special programs to watch the log generally want to see more information than is typically echoed to the console by syslog.
