[syslog-ng] Upgrade gotchas?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:25 -0700, Lay, James wrote:
> Hey All!
> 
>  
> 
> I’m about to do an upgrade from 3.0.1, to 3.2.2.  Any surprises or
> gotchas I should be aware of?  I’ve done some searching online and
> didn’t see too much in the way of what I needed to do, if anything,
> besides ./configure make and make install of eventlog and syslog-ng.
> My config below is what I am workin with:
> 
>  
> 
> @version:3.0
> 
> options { use_dns(no); };
> 
>  
> 
> source s_local {
> 
>         unix-stream("/dev/log");
> 
>         udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
> 
>         tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(50000));
> 
>         file("/proc/kmsg");
> 
> };
> 
>  
> 
> destination d_file {
> 
>         file("/syslogs/messages");
> 
> };
> 
>  
> 
> log {
> 
>         source(s_local);
> 
>         destination(d_file);
> 
> };
> 
>  
> 
> Anything besides changing the version number?  Thanks all.

Well, my intention has always been not to cause upgrade gotchas. With a
simple config like your it should be easy.

But anyway, it is good practice to start in a separate test environment
rather than doing it in production.


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Bazsi