We have done workaround by installing syslog-ng and libdbi-drivers on rhel 5, as this described in this link:

https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2009-August/013260.html

	Thanks for your input,

	Dmitry Sedov.

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:06:49PM -0600, Patrick H. wrote:
  

You wont be able to compile syslog-ng 3 on a rhel4 without ugly changes 
to the system (like glib). The easiest way is to just download the 
oracle 0.8.1 driver and compile it instead of 0.8.3.

Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:59:16 AM
From: Dmitry Sedov <sda@rosenergo.com>
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list 
<syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng can not work with oracle backend
    

	Oracle driver was added to shared libraryes cache:

[root@vm-dc-syslog doc]# ldconfig -p|grep dbi
       libdbi.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/local/libdbi/lib/libdbi.so.0
       libdbi.so (libc6) => /usr/local/libdbi/lib/libdbi.so
       libdbdoracle.so (libc6) => 
       /usr/local/libdbi-drivers/lib/dbd/libdbdoracle.so
[root@vm-dc-syslog doc]#

	Now I hardlinked oracle driver to /opt/syslog-ng/lib/dbd/, but 
	without success. Is it from difference of libdbi versions - in rpm 
	and 0.8.3 compiled by me?

	I tried to compile syslog-ng from tarball and with same libdbi as in 
	oracle driver case, but 'configure' cancel his work with strange 
	error:

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.10.1... no
*** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found.
*** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
configure: error: Cannot find GLIB version >= 2.10.1: is pkg-config in 
path?


	Regards,

	Dmitry Sedov.



On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:53:42AM -0600, Patrick H. wrote:
 
      

If you used the pre-compiled syslog-ng rpm, it comes with its own 
location for the libdbi-dbd-drivers files. You need to place the oracle 
driver in that directory; /opt/syslog-ng/lib/dbd/.


Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:07:09 AM
From: Dmitry Sedov <sda@rosenergo.com>
To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Subject: [syslog-ng]  syslog-ng can not work with oracle backend
   
        

	Hello!

	I took stable binary rpm with open source syslog-ng version 3.0.6 on 
	balabit.hu and install it on rhel 4u7. For some reason it does not 
	want to work with oracle backend. I try next bekend description in 
	syslog-ng.conf:

destination d_oracle_syslog {
      sql(type(oracle)
          username("login")
          password("password")
          database("database")
          table("table")
          columns("DATE varchar2(24)",
                  "facility number(2)",
                  "LEVEL number(1)",
                  "host varchar2(128)",
                  "program varchar2(64)",
                  "pid number(8)",
                  "message varchar2(1024)")
          indexes( "DATE","facility","host")
      );
};


	And after start syslog-ng post in /var/log/messages notes about 
	failure:

Apr 30 18:35:47 vm-dc-syslog syslog-ng[9815]: No such DBI driver; 
type='oracle'
Apr 30 18:35:47 vm-dc-syslog syslog-ng[9815]: No such DBI driver; 
type='oracle'
Apr 30 18:35:47 vm-dc-syslog syslog-ng[9815]: No such DBI driver; 
type='oracle'


	After this issue appear, I compile libdbi and libdbi-drivers version 
	0.8.3. But it did not help: syslog-ng continue write "No such DBI 
	driver; type='oracle'". And the same happens with the syslog-ng 
	versions 3.1.1 and 3.1.0.

	I install syslog-ng with binary rpm's from www.balabit.com. 

	Tell me, please, how I may fix this issue.


	Regards,

	Dmitry Sedov.
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