Hi, There were many requests for RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 support. The last version compiling on these ancient platforms was syslog-ng 3.9. Bazsi provided a fix: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/1837 which I applied to the syslog-ng 3.13 branch. Packages are available at: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng313epel6/ Compared to the 3.9 package other than making it to compile I enabled GeoIP2 (libmaxminddb) support and fixed any problems in packaging I ran into. I consider these packages ready to use, but if you run into any problems let me know! Please RT https://twitter.com/PCzanik/status/953931953669050368 to reach more people$ Bye, Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@balabit.com> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik
Hi Peter,
There were many requests for RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 support. The last version compiling on these ancient platforms was syslog-ng 3.9. Bazsi provided a fix: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/1837 which I applied to the syslog-ng 3.13 branch.
IMHO these versions are by no means "ancient". They are fully supported versions, and in my experience there are still more EL6 instances running in production than EL7, which may or may not be correlated to the fact that many admins shirk away from systemd. Many thanks to Baszi for the patch! Best regards, Peter.
Yeah, sorry for writing "ancient", I'm a R&D type of person living on the edge. To me even RHEL 7 is old :) My experience was until recently that RHEL 7 is use on about 3x more machines than RHEL 6. Then realized that my 3.7 packages for RHEL 6 has over 250k downloads a week. My guess is that it comes from AWS, but I don't have access to download statistics to prove my assumption. Anyway, I hope you find my packages useful! Bye, Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@balabit.com> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Peter Eckel <lists@eckel-edv.de> wrote:
Hi Peter,
There were many requests for RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 support. The last version compiling on these ancient platforms was syslog-ng 3.9. Bazsi provided a fix: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/1837 which I applied to the syslog-ng 3.13 branch.
IMHO these versions are by no means "ancient". They are fully supported versions, and in my experience there are still more EL6 instances running in production than EL7, which may or may not be correlated to the fact that many admins shirk away from systemd.
Many thanks to Baszi for the patch!
Best regards,
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Hi Peter,
My experience was until recently that RHEL 7 is use on about 3x more machines than RHEL 6.
there is some adoption of EL7, but it is still fairly sluggish even after more than two years. RHEL customers tend to be rather conservative ... I still see EL5 systems in customer installations, though after that one going out of support they are finally disappearing now (Python 2.4, yuck!).
Anyway, I hope you find my packages useful!
absolutely! I used to build RPMs myself for a while until I found yours, so they are really a big help! Cheers, Peter.
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