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[Bug 275] New: lib/filter/filter-in-list. c does not compile under Solaris 10
by bugzilla＠bugzilla.balabit.com 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275 Summary: lib/filter/filter-in-list.c does not compile under Solaris 10 Product: syslog-ng Version: 3.5.x Platform: PC OS/Version: Solaris Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: unspecified Component: syslog-ng AssignedTo: bazsi(a)balabit.hu ReportedBy: michael.hocke(a)nyu.edu Type of the Report: bug Estimated Hours: 0.0 Created an attachment (id=93) --> (https://bugzilla.balabit.com/attachment.cgi?id=93) diff for misc.c and misc.h lib/filter/filter-in-list.c uses getline() that is not available in Solaris 10. I worked around it by adding code snippets to lib/misc.h and lib/misc.c that implement getdelim and getline that I took from another project. I was ablt to make it work but I assume it wasn't the most elegant solution and should be integrated into autoconfig etc. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.balabit.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.

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syslog-ng redis destination problem
by jrhendri＠roadrunner.com 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hi (again) - This one has me a bit puzzled. I am trying to write to redis using the example from the syslog-ng documentation: destination d_local_redis { redis(command("HINCRBY" "${HOST}/programs" "${PROGRAM}" "1")); }; but I am getting "-ERR value is not an integer or out of range" I have tried this on a couple systems. This particular one is: [n0142566@VDDP13E-F1A47ED src]$ /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng --version syslog-ng 3.5.4.1 Installer-Version: 3.5.4.1 Revision: Compile-Date: Jul 22 2014 12:30:06 Available-Modules: afsocket-notls,afprog,csvparser,system-source,dbparser,redis,syslogformat,afuser,afstomp,afmongodb,linux-kmsg-format,json-plugin,basicfuncs,afamqp,affile,cryptofuncs,afsocket,confgen Enable-Debug: off Enable-GProf: off Enable-Memtrace: off Enable-IPv6: on Enable-Spoof-Source: off Enable-TCP-Wrapper: off Enable-Linux-Caps: off Enable-Pcre: off [n0142566@VDDP13E-F1A47ED src]$ And I have captured the packets to see what is being sent and see this following the TCP stream with Wireshark (pcap attached) *1 $4 ping +PONG *4 $7 HINCRBY $24 VDDP13E-F1A47ED/programs $16 ArcSightLogs_PDC $2 * -ERR value is not an integer or out of range Note: when I use ("INCR" "testkey") it works - seems like the integer increment is not being sent correctly? Is this something I am getting wrong or is it a bug ? Thanks (again) Jim

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Plugin module not found and Error parsing source, source plugin pipe not found
by Jean Faye 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

confirm a6d843f7ad7d1dbf1fefb6f12432e54941a680a9 Hi all, When I run syslog-ng on my platform I faced the issue below. Could you please tell me why this issues happen and how can I fixed them? I am using syslog-ng-3.2.5 and eventlog-0.2.13. See in below the syslog-ng.conf I used. Thank you in advance Ismael /**************Error Logs*******************/ Starting syslog-ng:Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='syslogformat' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='basicfuncs' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='afsocket' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='affile' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='afprog' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='afuser' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='dbparser' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='csvparser' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='syslogformat' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='basicfuncs' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='afsocket' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='affile' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='afprog' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='afuser' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='dbparser' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='csvparser' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='confgen' Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='confgen' Error parsing source, source plugin pipe not found in /etc/syslog-ng.conf at line 26, column 2: pipe("/tmp/pipe" pad_size(2048)); ^^^^ syslog-ng documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng mailing list: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng confirm a6d843f7ad7d1dbf1fefb6f12432e54941a680a9 syslog-ng.conf @version: 3.2 @include "scl.conf" # # Syslog-ng configuration file, compatible with default Debian syslogd # installation. Originally written by anonymous (I can't find his name) # Revised, and rewrited by me (SZALAY Attila <sasa(a)debian.org>) # First, set some global options. options { long_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); use_dns(no); use_fqdn(no); owner("root"); group("adm"); perm(0640); stats_freq(0); bad_hostname("^gconfd$");create_dirs(yes); }; ######################## # Sources ######################## # This is the default behavior of sysklogd package # Logs may come from unix stream, but not from another machine. # #source s_src { unix-dgram("/dev/log"); internal(); # file("/proc/kmsg" program_override("kernel")); #}; ######FIJ###### source s_mysource { pipe("/tmp/pipe" pad_size(2048)); #file("/var/log/ldb/fij_source.log" create_dirs(yes)); }; ############### # If you wish to get logs from remote machine you should uncomment # this and comment the above source line. # #source s_net { tcp(ip(127.0.0.1) port(1000) authentication(required) encrypt(allow)); }; ######################## # Destinations ######################## # First some standard logfile # #destination d_auth { file("/var/log/auth.log"); }; #destination d_cron { file("/var/log/cron.log"); }; #destination d_daemon { file("/var/log/daemon.log"); }; #destination d_kern { file("/var/log/kern.log"); }; #destination d_lpr { file("/var/log/lpr.log"); }; #destination d_mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); }; #destination d_syslog { file("/var/log/syslog"); }; #destination d_user { file("/var/log/user.log"); }; #destination d_uucp { file("/var/log/uucp.log"); }; # This files are the log come from the mail subsystem. # #destination d_mailinfo { file("/var/log/mail/mail.info"); }; #destination d_mailwarn { file("/var/log/mail/mail.warn"); }; #destination d_mailerr { file("/var/log/mail/mail.err"); }; # Logging for INN news system # #destination d_newscrit { file("/var/log/news/news.crit"); }; #destination d_newserr { file("/var/log/news/news.err"); }; #destination d_newsnotice { file("/var/log/news/news.notice"); }; # Some `catch-all' logfiles. # #destination d_debug { file("/var/log/debug"); }; #destination d_error { file("/var/log/error"); }; #destination d_messages { file("/var/log/messages"); }; # The root's console. # #destination d_console { usertty("root"); }; # Virtual console. # #destination d_console_all { file("/dev/tty10"); }; # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the nsole' utility. To use it, # you must invoke nsole' with the -file' option: # # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] # #destination d_xconsole { pipe("/dev/xconsole"); }; # Send the messages to an other host # #destination d_net { tcp("127.0.0.1" port(1000) authentication(on) encrypt(on) log_fifo_size(1000)); }; # Debian only #destination d_ppp { file("/var/log/ppp.log"); }; ######FIJ###### ########################Vérifier l'option create_dirs(yes)###################### destination d_GEN { #file("/var/log/ldb/GENTrace.log" create_dirs(yes)); file("/var/log/ldb/GENTrace.log"); }; destination d_SU { #file("/var/log/ldb/SUTrace.log" create_dirs(yes)); file("/var/log/ldb/SUTrace.log"); }; destination d_WAN { #file("/var/log/ldb/WANTrace.log" create_dirs(yes)); file("/var/log/ldb/WANTrace.log"); }; destination d_CPL { #file("/var/log/ldb/CPLTrace.log" create_dirs(yes)); file("/var/log/ldb/CPLTrace.log"); }; ############### ######################## # Filters ######################## # Here's come the filter options. With this rules, we can set which # message go where. #filter f_dbg { level(debug); }; #filter f_info { level(info); }; #filter f_notice { level(notice); }; #filter f_warn { level(warn); }; #filter f_err { level(err); }; #filter f_crit { level(crit .. emerg); }; #filter f_debug { level(debug) and not facility(auth, authpriv, news, mail); }; #filter f_error { level(err .. emerg) ; }; #filter f_messages { level(info,notice,warn) and # not facility(auth,authpriv,cron,daemon,mail,news); }; #filter f_auth { facility(auth, authpriv) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_cron { facility(cron) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_daemon { facility(daemon) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_kern { facility(kern) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_lpr { facility(lpr) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_local { facility(local0, local1, local3, local4, local5, # local6, local7) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_mail { facility(mail) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_news { facility(news) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_syslog3 { not facility(auth, authpriv, mail) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_user { facility(user) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_uucp { facility(uucp) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_cnews { level(notice, err, crit) and facility(news); }; #filter f_cother { level(debug, info, notice, warn) or facility(daemon, mail); }; #filter f_ppp { facility(local2) and not filter(f_debug); }; #filter f_console { level(warn .. emerg); }; ######FIJ###### filter f_GEN { facility(local0) and filter(nom_du_composant_applicatif); }; filter f_SU { facility(local0) and filter(nom_du_composant_applicatif); }; filter f_WAN { facility(local0) and filter(nom_du_composant_applicatif); }; filter f_CPL { facility(local0) and filter(nom_du_composant_applicatif); }; ############### ######################## # Log paths ######################## #log { source(s_src); filter(f_auth); destination(d_auth); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_cron); destination(d_cron); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_daemon); destination(d_daemon); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_kern); destination(d_kern); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_lpr); destination(d_lpr); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_syslog3); destination(d_syslog); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_user); destination(d_user); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_uucp); destination(d_uucp); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_mail); destination(d_mail); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_info); destination(d_mailinfo); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_warn); destination(d_mailwarn); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_mail); filter(f_err); destination(d_mailerr); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_news); filter(f_crit); destination(d_newscrit); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_news); filter(f_err); destination(d_newserr); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_news); filter(f_notice); destination(d_newsnotice); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_cnews); destination(d_console_all); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_cother); destination(d_console_all); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_ppp); destination(d_ppp); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_debug); destination(d_debug); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_error); destination(d_error); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_messages); destination(d_messages); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_console); destination(d_console_all); destination(d_xconsole); }; #log { source(s_src); filter(f_crit); destination(d_console); }; # All messages send to a remote site # #log { source(s_src); destination(d_net); }; ######FIJ###### log { source(s_mysource); filter(f_GEN); destination(d_GEN); }; log { source(s_mysource); filter(f_SU); destination(d_SU); }; log { source(s_mysource); filter(f_WAN); destination(d_WAN); }; log { source(s_mysource); filter(f_CPL); destination(d_CPL); }; ###############

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syslog-ng-3.5.5 bison: invalid argument `no-yacc' for `--warnings'
by Scot Needy 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Sorry if this is a dupe. Looked through my mail archives and didn’t see any hits. Trying to compile syslog-ng on CentOS 6.5 final and make fails on bison arguments. [root(a)syslog-ng-3.5.5]# make YACC lib/rewrite/rewrite-expr-grammar.c bison: invalid argument `no-yacc' for `--warnings' Valid arguments are: - `none - no warnings' - `midrule-values - unset or unused midrule values' - `yacc - incompatibilities with POSIX YACC' - `all - all of the above' - `error - warnings are errors' YACC lib/rewrite/rewrite-expr-grammar.h …. ….. …. bison: invalid argument `no-yacc' for `--warnings' Valid arguments are: - `none - no warnings' - `midrule-values - unset or unused midrule values' - `yacc - incompatibilities with POSIX YACC' - `all - all of the above' - `error - warnings are errors' make --no-print-directory all-recursive CC lib/lib_libsyslog_ng_la-afinter.lo CC lib/lib_libsyslog_ng_la-apphook.lo YACC lib/block-ref-grammar.h bison: invalid argument `no-yacc' for `--warnings' Valid arguments are: - `none - no warnings' - `midrule-values - unset or unused midrule values' - `yacc - incompatibilities with POSIX YACC' - `all - all of the above' - `error - warnings are errors' CC lib/lib_libsyslog_ng_la-block-ref-parser.lo lib/block-ref-parser.c:26:31: error: block-ref-grammar.h: No such file or directory lib/block-ref-parser.c:43: error: 'LL_CONTEXT_BLOCK_REF' undeclared here (not in a function) make[2]: *** [lib/lib_libsyslog_ng_la-block-ref-parser.lo] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 ============== ./configure output =================== configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating librabbitmq.pc config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands rabbitmq-c build options: Host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Version: 0.2.0 64-bit: no Tools: no Documentation: no syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.5.5 configured Compiler options: compiler : gcc -std=gnu99 compiler options : -g -O2 -Wall -pthread -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/eventlog -I$(top_srcdir)/lib/ivykis/src/include -I$(top_builddir)/lib/ivykis/src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 linker flags : prefix : /usr/local linking mode : dynamic embedded crypto : no __thread keyword : yes Submodules: ivykis : internal libmongo-client : internal librabbitmq : internal Features: Debug symbols : no GCC profiling : no Memtrace : no IPV6 support : yes spoof-source support : no tcp-wrapper support : no Linux capability support : no PCRE support : no Env wrapper support : no systemd support : no (unit dir: none) Modules: Module search path : /usr/local/lib/syslog-ng Sun STREAMS support (module): no SSL support (module) : yes SQL support (module) : no PACCT module (EXPERIMENTAL) : no MongoDB destination (module): yes JSON support (module) : yes SMTP support (module) : yes AMQP destination (module) : yes STOMP destination (module) : yes GEOIP support (module) : no Redis support (module) : no

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Problem with mongodb
by DeeKaeOne 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Hi, I have a fresh CentOS 7 minimal installation and enabled the EPEL 7 repo. Then installed syslog-ng and syslog-dbi in the following versions: Installed Packages Name : syslog-ng Arch : x86_64 Version : 3.5.5 Release : 1.el7 Size : 1.6 M Repo : installed >From repo : epel Summary : Next-generation syslog server URL : http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng Installed Packages Name : syslog-ng-libdbi Arch : x86_64 Version : 3.5.5 Release : 1.el7 Size : 61 k Repo : installed >From repo : epel Summary : libdbi support for syslog-ng URL : http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng All documentations say that this version should support mongodb, but after some debugging I found this output while failing to start syslog-ng: Adding include file; filename='/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/mongodb.conf' Starting to read include file; filename='/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/mongodb.conf', depth='1' Error parsing destination, destination plugin mongodb not found in /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/mongodb.conf at line 2, column 5: included from /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf line 68, column 1 mongodb( ^^^^^^^ Where my /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/mongodb.conf looks like this: destination d_mongodb { mongodb(); }; log { source(s_sys); destination(d_mongodb); }; Am I missing something or is that rpm compiled without mongodb support? Glad about any ideas! Cheers, Dennis --

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Can you have multiple non-standard TCP ports as sources
by Smith, Jerry Don II 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Good Afternoon, I am trying to setup a syslog-ng aggregation server and I can currently get it to listen on standard 601/514 ports. source remote { udp(ip(0.0.0.0)); tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(601) max-connections(200)); }; and source remote_2 { tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514) max-connections(200)); }; [root@ms30snllx opt]# netstat -pan |grep syslog tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:601 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 22113/syslog-ng tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:514 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 22113/syslog-ng udp 3328 0 0.0.0.0:514 0.0.0.0:* 22113/syslog-ng But when I add a new source and have it listen on 1514 for example: source remote_3 { tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(1514) max-connections(200)); }; I don't get a listener on 1514 as well when looking via netstat . Is there something I am missing? Thanks in advance,

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syslog-ng 3.6.0alpha1 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.6.0alpha1 SUMMARY : new alpha release DATE : Jul 30, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The first alpha version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.6.0alpha1) has been released. This being an alpha release, testing is most welcome, but production use is not recommended! CHANGES: 3.6.0alpha1 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:40:42 +0200 This is the first alpha release of the upcoming syslog-ng OSE 3.6 branch, a result of about seven months of work, by more than a dozen contributors, touching 379 files, and changing over twenty thousand lines. Compared to the latest stable release (3.5.5), this alpha release contains the following noteworthy changes: New dependencies ---------------- PCRE is now a required dependency of syslog-ng, and is not optional anymore. Features -------- ### New options * A new `custom-domain()` global setting was introduced, which allows the administrator to override the local domain name used by syslog-ng. It affects all locally generated log messages. * Added a `use-rcptid()` global option, that tells syslog-ng to assign a reception ID to each message received and generated by syslog-ng. This ID is available as the `$RCPTID` macro, and is unique on a given host. The counter wraps around at 48 bits and is never zero. ### New drivers * The `pseudofile()` destination driver is a very simple driver, aimed at delivering messages to special files in `/proc` or `/dev`. It opens and closes the file on each message, instead of keeping it open. It does not support templates in the filename, and does not have a queue (and as such, is not adequate in high traffic situations). * The new `nodejs()` source driver (implemented as an SCL macro) adds a source driver that allows syslog-ng to accept messages from node.js applications that use the `winston` logging API. ### Miscellaneous new features * The `multi-line-mode()` option gained a new setting: `prefix-suffix`, which works similarly to the `prefix-garbage` (which is the new name for `regexp`), except it appends the garbage part to the message, instead of discarding it. This new mode can be used to work around the absence of a timeout. * Filters default to PCRE matching, instead of the previous POSIX regexp default. ### Statistics * The stats counter for PROGRAM counters now includes the timestamp of the last update. * A new `stats-lifetime()` global option was introduced, which controls how often dynamic counters are expired. The timer is not exact, some timers may live a little bit longer than the specified time. * Dynamic counters are now cleaned up every `stats-lifetime()` minutes (defaulting to 10 minutes) instead of only on reloads. This change was done to reduce the memory used by dynamic counters. * There is now an `internal_queue_length` statistic, which shows the length of the internal queue. This is most useful to see if the `internal()` source is not connected, or if it is not being emptied fast enough (which, again, indicates a more serious error). ### MongoDB * The `mongodb()` driver now supports authentication, even when using replica sets. When re-connecting to another member of the set, the driver will automatically re-authenticate. * The `--with-libmongo-client` option of the configure script now supports `auto` as a value, and will then detect whether to use the system version of the library or the internal copy. We default to `auto` now, which prefers the system library over the internal copy. * The driver does not automatically add an `_id` field to the message: the server will do that automatically, if none is present. This allows users to override the field from within their syslog-ng config. * A new `retries()` option can be used to tell the driver how many times it should try to insert a message into the database before giving up (defaults to 3). This fixes the case where a rogue message could hold up the entire queue, as it was retried forever. * The driver now enables `safe-mode()` by default. * There is now a one-minute timeout for MongoDB operations. If an operation times out, it will be considered failed. * The driver can now connect to MongoDB via UNIX domain sockets. * The `double()` type hint is now supported by the driver. ### Unix Domain Sockets * The `unix-dgram()` and `unix-stream()` sources now extract UNIX credentials (PID, UID and GID of the sending application) from the passed messages, if any. On Linux, and FreeBSD, the path of the executable belonging to PID is extracted too, along with command-line arguments. The extracted values are available in `${.unix.pid}`, `${.unix.uid}`, `${.unix.gid}`, `${.unix.exe}` and `${.unix.cmdline}`, respectively. * The `system()` source will overwrite the PID macro with the value of `${.unix.pid}`, if present. ### JSON * The json-parser gained an `extract-prefix()` option, which can be used to tell the parser to only extract JSON members from a specific subtree of the incoming object. Example: `json-parser(extract-prefix("foo.bar[5]"));` Assuming that the incoming object is named msg, this is equivalent to the following javascript code: `msg.foo.bar[5]` The resulting expression must be a JSON object, so that syslog-ng can extract its members into LogMessage name-value pairs. This also works when the top-level object is an array, as `extract-prefix()` allows the use of an array index at the first indirection level, for example: `json-parser(extract-prefix("[5]"));`, which translates to `msg[5]`. * The `$(format-json)` template function now handles the `double()` type hint. ### Debugging * When sending messages to stderr in debug mode, prepend a timestamp to the messages. * The new `$RUNID` macro is available for templates, which changes its value every time syslog-ng is restarted, but not when reloaded. * A Valgrind suppression file was added (available under `contrib/valgrind/`), to aid in debugging memory leaks in syslog-ng. It supresses a couple of known false positives, and a few other things in third-party libraries. * A new utility, `system-expand`, was added, which returns what the `system()` source would expand to. Bugfixes -------- * With the MongoDB destination, successfully inserted messages are not counted as "stored" anymore: stored messages are those that are in a memory or disk buffer. * In the MongoDB destination, reconnecting in a replica-set environment now works correctly, and reliably. * The reliability of the `usertty()` destination driver was greatly improved. Previously, some parts of it were not thread-safe, which could result in strange behaviour. * The handling of escape related flags of `csvparser()` was changed: instead of these flags overwriting all other (even non-escape related) flags, if the flag to set is an escape-flag, it will keep all non-escape flags, and set the new one. If it is a not such a flag, then it will clear all flags, and set the previous escape flags, and the new flag. This, in essence, means that when setting flags on a `csvparser()`, if it is an escape flag, only escape flags will be affected. If not, then escape flags will not be affected at all. * The SQL destination now correctly continues $SEQNUM counting after a reload, instead of starting afresh. * When tring to stop syslog-ng while a reload is in progress, syslog-ng will now correctly shut down cleanly. * When the local hostname is not an FQDN, and the local resolver fails to return an FQDN too, syslog-ng does not abort anymore, but continues using a non-FQDN hostname after emitting a warning on the internal source. Furthermore, syslog-ng will try to resolve the FQDN harder: when multiple names are returned, it will search for the first FQDN one, instead of stopping at the primary name. * The `update-patterndb` script will now work correctly when the current working directory contains .pdb files. * We will now correctly handle time going backwards in patterndb: it will realign its idea of current time with the system. This corrects a bug where timeouts did not function properly when system time was set backwards. * The Linux capability support is now correctly auto-detected by the configure script, and defaults to off on FreeBSD 9+, as it should. * Various memory leak fixes around the code base. Developer notes --------------- The code base went through a lot of refactoring, too many to list in a simple NEWS file. Groundwork has been laid out for future features which are yet to hit the 3.6 branch. Credits ------- syslog-ng is developed as a community project, and as such it relies on volunteers, to do the work necessarily to produce syslog-ng. Reporting bugs, testing changes, writing code or simply providing feedback are all important contributions, so please if you are a user of syslog-ng, contribute. We would like to thank the following people for their contribution: Andras Mitzki, Andres Tamayo, Balazs Scheidler, Csaba Karsai, Daniel Gados, Evan Rempel, Fabien Wernli, Gergely Nagy, Igor Ippolitov, Imre Lazar, Jakub Wilk, Laszlo Budai, Lucas McLane, Martin Bagge, Matyas Koszik, Nick Alcock, Otto Berger, Peter Czanik, Peter Gyongyosi, Sebastien Badia, Sebastiaan Hoogeveen, Tamas Pal, Tibor Benke, Tobias Schwab, Viktor Juhasz, Viktor Tusa, Xufeng Zhang DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary packages from: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.6.0a… The documentation of the syslog-ng Open Source Edition is available in The syslog-ng Open Source Edition Administrator's Guide at http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/

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syslog driver parse bug?
by John Cole 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Apologies if I missed a bugfix in my web searching and manually scanning the changelogs. I'm running syslog-ng (syslog-ng-3.2.5-3.el6.x86_64) on EL6 with the syslog driver as my network source: source s_network { syslog(ip(0.0.0.0) transport("udp") port(514)); syslog(ip(0.0.0.0) transport("tcp") port(514)); }; I have an application that does not have an internal synchronized clock source. Per RFC5424, "A syslog application MUST use the NILVALUE as TIMESTAMP if the syslog application is incapable of obtaining system time." And, the grammar shows TIMESTAMP = NILVALUE / FULL-DATE "T" FULL-TIME When I specify the "-" NILVALUE in the syslog message, the syslog driver does not seem to be able to parse the message and does not log anything. If I hardcode a time value, all message fields seem to post appropriately. Is this a new issue, or did I miss a version that addressed the handling of NILVALUE? Given RedHat lagging on versions, and Fedora's subsequent changes, I haven't yet begun the effort of retrofitting the RPM source in RAWHIDE to test, with the hope that someone might recognize the bug, or have a pointer to a EL6 SRPM so I can test against latest... Thanks for any/all pointers for a quick resolution! John

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syslog-ng is now available in EPEL7
by Peter Czanik 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hi, syslog-ng 3.5.5 just arrived to EPEL7: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2014/07/epel-7-now-contains-syslog-ng/ As far as I can see, not all mirrors carry it yet... Bye, -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik(a)balabit.com> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik

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compiling problems --enable-mongodb --enable-json --enable-redis
by jrhendri＠roadrunner.com 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Hi, I am trying to get syslog-ng to be the front-end for a larger log collection architecture including mongodb, redis, elasticsearch, possibly logstash & kibana. Have been trying to build syslog-ng with the necessary modules and failing miserably. I know it must be me - that said, I have spent several hours trying to get this to compile on both RHEL 5 and Ubuntu 14.04 I ran into a few things that might be useful (or not), but since the platforms and libraries installed are different, yet the end error is the same I thought I would ask for other eyes / brains to help here... Thanks for any assistance! Jim RHEL 5: I have installed json-c & redis-stable which provides these libraries: ./redis-stable/deps/hiredis/hiredis.h ./redis-stable/deps/hiredis/libhiredis.a and created links here to try and get around issues: /usr/lib/hiredis /usr/lib/hiredis/libhiredis.a /usr/include/hiredis /usr/include/hiredis/hiredis.h configure succeeds with this: Modules: Module search path : /usr/local/lib/syslog-ng Sun STREAMS support (module): no SSL support (module) : no SQL support (module) : no PACCT module (EXPERIMENTAL) : no MongoDB destination (module): yes JSON support (module) : yes SMTP support (module) : no AMQP destination (module) : yes STOMP destination (module) : yes GEOIP support (module) : no Redis support (module) : yes Make fails here: CC modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis-grammar.lo CC modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis.lo CC modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis-parser.lo CCLD modules/redis/libredis.la /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lhiredis collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [modules/redis/libredis.la] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 [n0142566@VDDP13E-F1A47ED syslog-ng-3.5.4.1]$ Ubuntu: I have installed json-c, redis-stable & libredis: /usr/local/lib/libredis.so.1.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libredis.1 /usr/local/lib/libredis.la /usr/local/include/redis.h configure succeeds with this: Modules: Module search path : /usr/local/lib/syslog-ng Sun STREAMS support (module): no SSL support (module) : yes SQL support (module) : no PACCT module (EXPERIMENTAL) : no MongoDB destination (module): yes JSON support (module) : yes SMTP support (module) : no AMQP destination (module) : yes STOMP destination (module) : yes GEOIP support (module) : no Redis support (module) : yes Make fails with: CC modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis-grammar.lo CC modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis.lo CC modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis-parser.lo CCLD modules/redis/libredis.la /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lhiredis collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [modules/redis/libredis.la] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 [n0142566@picard:~/src/syslog-ng-3.5.5$ ===========================================

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