Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of RaspberryPiSurveillanceMonitor

Timestamp:

Jun 5, 2017, 8:17:33 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

Rick van der Zwet

Comment:

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RaspberryPiSurveillanceMonitor

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 *  *    * * *   root    /root/kill_stuck_omxplayer.sh | logger
 }}}
+
+= rsyslog issues =
+My log was flooding with messages like this:
+{{{
+Jun  5 10:08:31 raspberrypi rsyslogd-2007: action 'action 17' suspended, next retry is Mon Jun  5 10:10:01 2017 [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ]
+}}}
+
+Looking at the [https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=122601| RaspberryPi Forum] it was caused by messages not being read from file:/dev/xconsole To fix this edit file:/etc/rsyslog.conf and comment out the block sending the entries:
+{{{
+daemon.*;mail.*;\
+        news.err;\
+        *.=debug;*.=info;\
+        *.=notice;*.=warn       |/dev/xconsole
+}}}