I am using /dev/xconsole
to send system logs from rsyslog
. That works great, because I am don't have to store the logs on disk.
I would like to have another similar file , i.e /dev/xconsole1
where I can send other kind of logs.
How can I create such special file?
When I go to /dev
and ls
it does not show complete major/minor number:
prw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2014-Oct-11 13:12:02 xconsole
it only shows 0
. In contrast, other special files have both.
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 1 2014-Oct-08 03:42:35 sda1
I know how to create special files using mknod
, but to do that, I need the major/minor number.