It was integrated in syslog-ng OSE 2.1, as announced earlier I only fix really critical issues in 2.0, it is in strict maintenance mode. I'd rather like to get more testing for syslog-ng OSE 2.1. The patch itself can be backported easily, here's the patch: http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-2.1.git;a=commitdiff;h=39e54c9b7ad7... On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:03 +0200, Andreas Kurz wrote:
Hello!
I am using syslog-ng 2.0.8 (and tested 2.0.9 to see if it includes the feature...) and found out that there is still no cmdline option to define the path/name of the "syslog-ng.persist" file (like for the pid/conf file). So it is not possible to easy run several Instances of syslog-ng using the file source driver on the same machine and store the file positions beyond syslog-ng restarts ... e.g. in a cluster environment .... or did I miss a hidden config option?
There was already a discussion about this some months ago. Is there a special reason, why this feature is not integrated in syslog-ng or is there only too less demand for such a feature?
-- Bazsi