March 2015 - syslog-ng - lists.balabit.hu

Interested in syslog-ng's :: command line tool
by Fongoh Martin 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Good day. I wish to make know my interest in working with syslog-ng organisation in this 2015 session of gsoc, under the project "syslog-ng as a command line tool". My name is Fongoh Martin, a 3rd year Bachelor in Computer Engineering, software specialty in the University of Buea, Cameroon. I am a Linux user with great experience and am good with the command line and have an extensive knowlege in shell scripting. I have 4 year experience in C, and 2 years experience in java, with a great idea on object orientation. Currently, I have cloned the source code from git and am going through it to get myself familiar and prepare for bug fixing. I am always ready to learn new technologies and techniques, following instructions and asking questions where not understood. Thanks as i await your reply.

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by Nikhil Ramesh 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

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Re: [syslog-ng] Single host logs aren't being written
by Jim Hendrick 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

I would look at the macro parsing. Is HOST correctly being parsed, etc. You could create a separate file destination using one macro at a time to narrow it down. Also you could check the syslog-ng logs themselves to look at drops. Jim Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Brandon Kendall <brandon.kendall(a)gmail.com> Date: 03/06/2015 11:56 AM (GMT-05:00) To: syslog-ng(a)lists.balabit.hu Subject: [syslog-ng] Single host logs aren't being written Hello everyone. I have a centralized syslog-ng server running that collect syslog messages from Cisco firewalls. The .conf file is very straightforward and contains the following: options {use_fqdn(no);use_dns(yes);dns_cache(yes);dns_cache_size(2000);dns_cache_expire(87600);keep_hostname(no);long_hostnames(no);flush_lines(0);normalize_hostnames(yes);create_dirs(yes);dir_group(group_name);dir_perm(0751);stats_freq(600);stats_level(1);group(group_name);perm(0640);}; source s_network_1 {udp();}; destination d_network_1 {file ("/var/syslog/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY/$HOST/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY-$HOST-$R_HOUR.log");}; log {source(s_network_1);destination(d_network_1);}; The goal is to have the logs from each device arranged in a hierarchy that is as follows (simplified):Date/device_name/hour-1.logDate/device/name/hour2.logetc This has been working great. Recently I configured another network device to send syslog messages to this server, and they aren't being logged. Using tcpdump on the syslog-ng box, I've verified the messages are making it to the server from the network device. They are UDP and using the correct port. I've compared the message format in the pcap to other devices that are still logging and everything matches. I have no errors in /var/log/syslog files, nor do I have errors in /var/log/messages. I've hit a dead end in troubleshooting, since all other devices sending logs to this server are being correctly written to log files. Can someone point me to anything else to check? This is syslog-ng 3.1.2 running on RHEL 5.8. Thanks!

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GSoC 2015 Language binding project
by Kata Jóna 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Hey, I was looking through the GSoC projects and I really liked the syslog-ng 's language binding project. I wonder if it would be good in C++ language or do you want it in a different language. I would really like to do it, but I only know C and C++ languages. Kacsa

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GSOC : syslog-ng as a command line tool
by Anshul Kushwaha 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Hi, I am a final year undergraduate student of Computer Science from India, I love linux, C and the Open Source community. I coded for The Linux Foundation in GSOC 2013 and would love to code for syslog-ng this year. I've been using linux since school and throughout college. I'm quite experienced with C and love how simple yet incredibly powerful it is. Here are my profiles: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshulkushwaha GitHub: http://github.com/anshulk For this summer, I'd like to implement "syslog-ng as a command line tool". I match the requirements well and this project will help me sharpen my skills. It would be great if I can get some pointers to start this. Thank You, Sincerely, Anshul Kushwaha

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GSoC - 2015
by Laszlo Budai 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Dear GSoC aspirants, first of all thank you for answering our GSoC call. Some of you asking how could start with the project. First, you have to choose a project. After that it is highly recommended to contact with the project's mentor. You should get enough information from your mentor to create your proposal. Ask all the questions you need to be answered. After you sent your proposal, you will get a small task. I suggest you to try to be as independent as you can: if you have a concrete idea, want to change something, just tell it to your mentor. (eg.: if you don't know c++ but know python and want to create a gui config editor: it is OK, the target is to have a nice GUI tool and not writing softwares in c++ :-) ) br, Laszlo Budai Sent from my HTC

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GSoC Introduction
by Bence Gedai 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Hi everyone, My name is Bence Tamás Gedai, and I am an undergraduate student at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. I'm interested in the "Configuration visualization" project. I have been coding in C for about a year, but I think I have got the fundamental skills needed for this project. I am familiar with C# and c++ as well. The thing that caught my attention about this project is graph theory, I am really interested in his field and in algorithms related to that. I have alredy worked on a small issue at syslog-ng, so I know the basics of the code. I tried to contact the mentioned mentor, Viktor Tusa via tusa(a)balabit.com, but my mails were sent back. I have got a few questions about the project so can you direct me to the proper place? Thanks in advance, Bence Tamás Gedai

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GSoC2015 Project: syslog-ng configuration editor using Qt
by damitha kithmal 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Hi, I'm Damitha Kithmal , final year undergraduate of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I'm interested about the project idea of "*Project: syslog-ng configuration editor using Qt". *I have been working with Qt for more than two years. I also have done my internship in Qt at Millennium Information Technology, which is the largest C++ company in Sri Lanka. I'm also familiar with Squish Qt GUI Testing tool. I'm currently learning about the syslog-ng and hope it will be an advantage to do gsoc with syslog-ng. Thank You -- Damitha Kithmal *Undergraduate* *University of Moratuwa,* *Sri Lanka*.

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Advice on "Websocket for syslog-ng"
by Kai Zhao 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Hello, I am Kai Zhao, and I am a third-year graduate student in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. I am eager to take the "Websocket for syslog-ng" project for I have related experience. Skills: C/C++ : Strong (I have coded more than 100 thousand lines in two project) Network programming: I have 2 year experience in network programming mostly under Fedora, for my internships involves SNMPv3, IPv6 at Siemens from 2012 to 2014. Thank you for give me some advice on the project. -- loverszhaokai motto：You got a dream and you gotta protect it. github：https://github.com/loverszhaokai blog：http://www.cnblogs.com/lovers/

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GSOC 2015: Student Introduction
by hitesh ramani 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

Hello,My name is Hitesh Ramani, and I'm pursuing my Master's in Technology from Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad, India. I've gone through the Projects page and the Project that caught my attention particularly was syslog-ng for Python.I, as my Post Graduation project, am currently working on Postgres, which is a C based ORDBMS, trying to extend it's functionalities. I also have a 2.5 year working experience with Python and am well versed with C and shell. Moreover, I have used Cython on a very small scale project in one of my labs so I've the basic knowledge of it. Please guide me as per how should I start with the project.Thank You.Hitesh Ramani

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