[syslog-ng] Third-party module collection updates

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 14:37 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> A repository for third-party and experimental modules was announced in
> May[0], and I'd like to give a quick update about what's been brewing
> there since then:
> 
> * The SMTP destination has been updated a few times for newer versions
>   of syslog-ng 3.3. As of this writing, it's up to date with current
>   3.3.
> 
> * The MongoDB destination was copied there too, as its easier to
>   maintain one copy, instead of a branch for 3.3 and 3.4 each.
> 
>   It's also been updated to use recent versions of the libmongo-client
>   library, so it can take advantage of features added in the past few
>   months, such as the ability to use Replica Sets and safe mode (see my
>   earlier RFC[1] about these - what's mentioned there is implemented
>   now).
> 
>   The host() and port() parameters are now gone, and no backward
>   compatibility exists yet. That will be fixed at a later time.
> 
> * On the modules/rss branch, there is an initial RSS destination by
>   Viktor Tusa <tusa at balabit.hu>. It has a few serious issues, like not
>   escaping the log messages, and outputting an invalid format, but those
>   will be corrected Soon.
> 
>   There's not much one can use it for just yet, but it's going to be a
>   neat toy, nevertheless!
> 
> * The log visualisation helper[2] is included in tools/visualisation/.
> 
>   By the way, a new demo video is also available at
>   http://vimeo.com/25700679, which shows ~3 months of logs in 50
>   minutes. Quite a bit longer than the previous video, and made with
>   different gource settings, to be a bit less messy.
> 
> For the time being, the module collection is primarily developed against
> syslog-ng 3.3. The modules have a high chance of working with 3.4
> aswell, but that's not tested, and only minimal effort is made to be
> compatible with both. I'll try to figure out an easy way to properly
> support both versions in the future, but at the moment, the focus is on
> 3.3.
> 
>  0: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.syslog-ng/11403
>  1: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.syslog-ng/11557
>  2: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.syslog-ng/11569
> 

cool, I'm not concentrating too much effort on 3.4 yet, as I'd like to
push 3.3 out of the door, but then I'll probably merge everything from
this repository.

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Bazsi