On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 08:03 -0600, Ivey, Chris wrote:
Folks, I need to upgrade my syslog-ng from 1.6.11 to 2.0.7 since we now are using devices with high resolution timestamps. As I inherited these machines, and had not worked with syslog-ng prior to getting them, I was wondering if anyone could let me know if there were any gotchas for the upgrade. Can I upgrade in place? Do I need to make backups of any files? Things of this nature. Thanks, all!
You can upgrade in place, the 2.0 version is upward compatible with 1.6.x, however as it is a complete rewrite, I'd suggest you to run the configuration file on a 2.0 first to see if it parses ok. Once the configuration file is processed by the new version then most probably it will work well. You can upgrade in place as if you encounter problems you can always go back to 1.6.x without pain. -- Bazsi