[syslog-ng] syslog-ng can not work with oracle backend

[Patrick H.]

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 at rosenergo.com>
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list 
<syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng can not work with oracle backend
> 	Oracle driver was added to shared libraryes cache:
>
> [root at 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 at 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 at rosenergo.com>
>> To: syslog-ng at 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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