No need to even try. Starting at 3.10 there are glib2 requirements that are not present in Redhat 6.
Give that Redhat 6 is fully supported by Redhat until 2020 (2 more years) I am very disappointed that it has been abandoned by the syslog-ng developers. There are a number of memory leaks and performance fixes that are in syslog-ng 3.10 and later that can not be ported to the Redhat 6 platform.

Evan.

On 12/30/2017 07:54 AM, Ronald Fenner wrote:

If you can build it from source here's the relevant parts of my build script for syslog-ng NOTE: this runs under amazon's linux version.

wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.0.2-bin.zip
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to get gradle"
     exit 1
fi

unzip gradle-4.0.2-bin.zip
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to unpack gradle"
     exit 1
fi

/bin/rm -rf /opt/gradle-4.0.2
mv gradle-4.0.2 /opt/gradle-4.0.2
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to move gradle"
     exit 1
fi

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle-4.0.2/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java/jre/lib/amd64/server:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

wget https://my.balabit.com/downloads/eventlog/0.2/eventlog_0.2.12.tar.gz
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to get eventlog"
     exit 1
fi

tar -zxf eventlog_0.2.12.tar.gz
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to unpack the eventlog"
     exit 1
fi

cd eventlog-0.2.12
./configure
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to configure the eventlog"
     exit 1
fi

make
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to make the eventlog"
     exit 1
fi

make install
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to install eventlog"
     exit 1
fi

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

wget https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/download/syslog-ng-3.11.1/syslog-ng-3.11.1.tar.gz
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to get syslog-ng"
     exit 1
fi

tar -zxf syslog-ng-3.11.1.tar.gz
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to unpack syslog-ng"
     exit 1
fi

cd syslog-ng-3.11.1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to change to the syslopg-ng directory"
     ls -l
     exit 1
fi

./configure --prefix=/opt/syslog-ng --enable-json --enable-java --enable-java-modules --enable-python --with-python=2.7
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to configure syslog-ng"
     exit 1
fi

make
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to make syslog-ng"
     exit 1
fi

make install
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "Failed to install syslog-ng"
     exit 1
fi


Ronald Fenner
Programmer
Game Circus LLC.

rfenner@gamecircus.com

On Dec 30, 2017, at 1:10 AM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik@balabit.com> wrote:

Unfortunately for RHEL 6 the latest version is 3.9. That is available from this repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng39epel6/

See https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/1403 for details.

Bye,

Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@balabit.com>
Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Scheidler, Balázs <balazs.scheidler@balabit.com> wrote:
Hi,

Maybe this article helps: https://www.balabit.com/blog/installing-latest-syslog-ng-on-rhel-and-other-rpm-distributions/

It also contains information on 3.13.

--
Bazsi

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Carter, Jed <JCARTER15@partners.org> wrote:
Good morning,

 
I am currently running syslog-ng OSE version 3.7 and RHEL 6.  I'm trying to update my syslog-ng OSE through EPEL.  It looks like the only way to get syslog-ng v3.12 is from RHEL 7.  What is the latest version of syslog-ng OSE that is supported by RHEL 6?

 
 
Thank you,

Jed

 
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Jed Carter

GCIH, GSEC, CEH

Information Security Engineer

Partners Health Care

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