Hey Peter, I have a video (slides really) that show the configuration steps as well, located at: http://www.logzilla.pro/syslog-ng-configuration The slides show: - The five "parts" of a syslog-ng configuration file - How to filter incoming syslog messages - How to specify destinations such as other servers, files, databases, etc. - Applying the 5 steps so that syslog-ng will use them. ______________________________________________________________ Clayton Dukes ______________________________________________________________ On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Peter Czanik <czanik@balabit.hu> wrote:
** Hello,
I just sent out the syslog-ng newsletter a few days ago, but there are already fresh news. But first of all: If you got 1 minute, please fill our syslog-ng performance survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6ZQDVH6
There was a new release of syslog-ng OSE 3.3 last weekend, it's now at beta2. FreeBSD ports was the first to add support for it, and now here are the openSUSE packages for testing: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/czanik:/syslog-ng33/ or if more interested in package sources, then check https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Aczanik%3Asyslog-ng33w... these packages were built. Systemd support is being reworked in openSUSE, so please stick to sysvinit (which is the default) when testing these packages. There is one known problem affecting functionality: mongodb support is broken. It's already fixed in git, so it will be part of the next release, or if there is a request for it, I can add the patch to the beta2 package.
I just found a nice introductory article about syslog-ng at Linux Journal, which describes the basics and also some more interesting topics and provides good explanations. You can read it at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/creating-centralized-syslog-server It was written on Debian, but most information should apply to any Linux distribution.
Bye,
-- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstreamhttp://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/
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