Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 21th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com <mailto:documentation@balabit.com> FEATURED NEWS Video: Basic building blocks of syslog-ng.conf ---------------------------------------------- There is a video series in the work to introduce the basics of syslog-ng. The second video is online now, which explains the basic building blocks of syslog-ng.conf. You can watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3OjHQj42Jg New videos will be published on the same Youtube channel. You are very welcome to subscribe to receive notifications about further syslog-ng videos and other interesting content. Syslog-ng 3.4.1 is released --------------------------- Version 3.4.1was released at the end of January. Compared to the RC2release, it only has some minor bugfixes. This version brings many major new features to syslog-ng: junctions and channels to make syslog-ng configuration even more flexible, a community contributed AMQP destination, improved JSON support including a parser and many value pairs related improvements. For more details, check http://algernon.blogs.balabit.com/2013/01/syslog-ng-ose-3-4-1-released/ You cancheck the announcement athttps://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000154.ht... For binary package availability check our 3^rd party binary page at http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... At the time of this writing there are v3.4.1 packages for openSUSE and SLES, not only as 3^rd party packages but also as part of the openSUSE 12.3 release. It's also available for FreeBSD in the sysutils/syslog-ng-devel port, and already in Fedora Rawhide. Packages for various Debian and Ubuntu releases are available in algernon's repo. syslog-ng at conferences: FOSDEM and Brno ----------------------------------------- The syslog-ng team is actively participating in the life of the open source community. Last weekend CzP gave a talk at FOSDEM and participated a two day long brainstorming session about logging and monitoring in Antwerp. He met many interesting people from the syslog-ng community. You can read about his experiences at http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/02/czp-fosdem-2013/ We will also participate http://devconf.cz/ and the systemd hackfest the day before the conference. If you are also there and want to talk about syslog-ng, we are more than happy to meet you! SHORT NEWS: * To use cacti with syslog-ng, check configuration examples at https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/01/trying-cacti-with-syslog-ng/ * What's new presentation in Hungarian for syslog-ng 3.4 with configuration examples: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/downloads/presentations/syslog-ng-ose-3.4... and http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/downloads/presentations/syslog-ng-ose-3.4... NEW RELEASES: * syslog-ng OSE 3.4.1:https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000154.ht... ARCHIVE http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/