Does anyone know what needs to be done to successfully upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 (F2)?  I tried simply stopping the service and running ‘rpm –ivh syslog-ng……rpm –force’ but it did not complete successfully.  I added the –force command because it was complaining of file conflicts.  Balabit has requested I upgrade to this version, as they try to help me figure out my other problem I’m having with the syslog-ng service, but I was unable to find any documentation or get a response from Balabit yet.  I thought I would see if anyone here had performed the upgrade and knew what needed to be done.  Here is the output I got when I tried to run it:

rpm -ivh syslog-ng-premium-edition-4.2.3-1.rhel5.i386.r                               pm --force

warning: syslog-ng-premium-edition-4.2.3-1.rhel5.i386.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 2aa28252

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

*IMPORTANT NOTICE - NEW LICENSE REQUIRED FOR MULTI-CPU OPERATION*

Please note that the 4.2 version of syslog-ng Premium Edition includes multi-threaded processing

with a 2 CPU core limit.  If you are upgrading your syslog-ng server from version 4.1 to 4.2

and your syslog-ng deployment requires more than 2 CPU cores, you will need to obtain a new

license file, free of charge, from the BalaBit sales department. Please contact the sales

department at sales@balabit.com.

Shutting down kernel logger: [FAILED]

Shutting down system logger: [FAILED]

Stopping syslog-ng:    1:syslog-ng-premium-editiwarning: /opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf created as /opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf.rpmnew

########################################### [100%]

Starting syslog-ng: WARNING: window sizing for network sources has changed in syslog-ng 4.1. The window size is the value of the log_iw_size() option divided by the value of max_connections(). If log_iw_size()/max_connections() is lower than 100, it is automatically increased to 100. Adjust the log_fifo_size() option if needed to avoid message loss.; orig_window_size='1', new_window_size='100', min_log_fifo_size='100000'

[  OK  ]

Thanks,

James McDonald

System Administrator

RHCSA, Security+

jmcdonald@lce.com