[syslog-ng] syslog-ng-3.0.3 for x86_64?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:33 -0500, John Patrick Carroll wrote:
> My question involves the availability of a x86_64 version of syslog-ng
> 3.0.3 for Red Hat/CentOS.  According to the info on the first link
> below, it is available, but at the actual download site at the second
> link below, only a version for amd64 is available.  Any ideas where I
> can get a version for Intel (x86_64)?  I have had issues in the past
> with running amd64 binaries on an Intel 64-bit system, so I am
> reluctant to try to install the amd64 version on an Intel 64-bit
> system.  Is the x86 version there 64 bit capable, i.e. does it use the
> 64-bit libraries by default, and fall back to 32-bit libraries only if
> 64-bit libraries are not available?
> 
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> http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/support/
> 
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> http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/upgrades/#rhel-5

Our internal name for x86-64 is "amd64" (since our build systems are
based on Debian source/binary packages) and the official arch name for
x86-64 in Debian is amd64.

But that binary should run on both, it is compiled against a "generic"
x86-64 CPU.

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Bazsi