One of my Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2) is running quite old versio of Rasbian – although fully updated and patched. Today while checking the syslog on my raspberry pi, I noticed the following error which was very frequently – almost every minute and thus was filling up the syslog.
Dec 24 20:59:35 rads rsyslogd-2007: action 'action 17' suspended, next retry is Thu Dec 24 21:01:05 2020 [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ]Thanks to logrotate I was not in an immediate need for action, but still I thought it will be better to fix this – atleast that will reduce the write and increase life of my SD Card.
The URL at the end of the message was very helpful. According to the specified URL this message simply means that rsyslog.conf contains the instruction to write to the xconsole pipe, but this pipe is never read. on editing the /etc/rsyslog file, the following section can be commented out or removed completely.
daemon.*;mail.*;\ news.err;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsoleA simple systemctl restart rsyslog after that will fix the issue.
I did not see this issue on my other Raspberry Pi which runs Raspbian based on Debian Buster (Debian 10). I checked the /etc/rsyslog.conf on that and could not find the offending lines there. So my understanding is that this issue is with Raspbian based on Jessie.