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PACKAGE : syslog-ng Premium Edition
VERSION : 2.1.9a
SUMMARY : new stable release
DATE : Feb 7, 2008
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DESCRIPTION:
A new stable version of syslog-ng Premium Edition (2.1.9a) has been
released. For latest fixes in the 2.1.x branch you are recommended to
upgrade to this version.
CHANGES:
2.1.9a
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:57:20 +0100
Bugfixes:
* Fixed end-of-line marker for destination files that had no
template() parameter.
2.1.9
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:16:08 +0100
Bugfixes:
* Fixed a potential crash on Solaris 8 in time related functions.
* Fixed flow-control behaviour for follow-mode source files.
* Fixed bind error in the UNIX domain socket destination driver on
Solaris.
* Added the "mark" keyword to be an alias of "mark_freq" for
compatibility with syslog-ng 1.6.
* Fixed message loss in destination files during configuration
reloads if syslog-ng is heavily loaded.
* Fixed a possible segmentation fault in the dns-cache-host() file
parsing code for improperly formatted host files.
* Fixed DNS cache size checking, persistent DNS cache entries were
also counted against dns_cache_size() which might decrease cache
space significantly when a large /etc/hosts file is in use.
* Fixed a bug that caused the persistent DNS cache (e.g. /etc/hosts)
to be reloaded for all name resolution requests.
* Fixed ISO timestamp parsing for timestamps that have no
timezone information or have a too long fraction of a second
portion.
* Fixed possible "Insufficient buffer space" errors in the STREAMS
driver.
* Fixed the starvation of the timer used to reap unused destination
files, which could cause some files never to be closed under
heavy load.
* Fixed restoring the time stamp from disk queue files in case the
timezone offset is negative.
* Added a workaround for possible deadlocks on /proc/kmsg and
user terminals, this case is still best avoided by careful user
configuration.
* Fixed program name parsing that caused problems for TAG values
that include the '/' character. This problem was introduced by
2.1.8.
Other changes:
* Added support for file sources that do not exist at startup.
* The fsync() option was implemented.
* Added support the "--persist-file" configuration option.
* Added support for timestamps used by some LinkSys routers.
* The SSL support now explicitly disables the use of SSLv2 which
prevented the use of network traffic compression.
* Significant performance improvements.
* Added loggen tool to generate syslog messages at the specified
rate.
* Added support for Solaris 10/x64
DOWNLOAD:
Download the latest binaries from:
http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/binaries/premium-edition/
OR, if you have a platform that is supported by apt-get, use the following
apt sources to fetch the latest releases:
Debian GNU/Linux
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etch:
deb https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/premium/ debian-etch/syslog-ng-2.1 syslog-ng-pe
RedHat Enterprise Linux
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RHEL-4
rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/premium/ rhel-4/syslog-ng-2.1 syslog-ng-pe
SUSE 10
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SUSE 10.0
rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/premium/ suse-10.0/syslog-ng-2.1 syslog-ng-pe
SUSE 10.1
rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/premium/ suse-10.1/syslog-ng-2.1 syslog-ng-pe
HTTP can also be used in the place of HTTPS If your version of apt-get
does not support the HTTPS protocol. When using plain HTTP,
the username and password will not be encrypted.