[syslog-ng] insider 2013-04: syslog-ng presentation at LOADays; New maintenance releases; Comment the Adminguide online

[Peter Czanik]

Dear syslog-ng users,


This is the 23th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter 
that brings you syslog-ng related news.


FEATURED NEWS


syslog-ng presentation at LOADays

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Peter Czanik of BalaBit gave a presentation at LOADays, a conference 
focusing on system administrators. It was about the major new features 
of the syslog-ng 3.X series including a few short demos of these 
features. Participants were most interested in patterndb, correlation 
and AMQP and asked about upcoming features.

The conference page is available at: http://loadays.org/

Blog about the event: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/04/czp-loadays/


New maintenance releases

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While most people are interested in new features, the syslog-ng team is 
also working on maintenance releases which fix problems in already 
released software. A new maintenance version was released for the 3.3 
series a few days ago and an other one is expected to arrive soon for 
the 3.4 series.

Announcement: 
https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-April/000157.html


Comment the Adminguide online!

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As you might know, we publish The syslog-ng Open Source Edition 
Administrator guide in three format: PDF, single-page HTML, and 
many-page HTML. The many-page HTML version of the OSE 3.3 and 3.4 guides 
have a new feature: online commenting. That means that you can easily 
give us feedback on any section of the adminguide. For example, you did 
not understand how X feature works? Let us know! You have found a typo? 
Please add a comment at the bottom of the page so we can correct it! You 
have a better, real-life configuration example instead of the one in the 
guide? Add it as a comment! Or even worse, there are no examples where 
it would be needed? If you already got a working example, please share 
it with us!
Try it at 
http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.4-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin/html/ch01s01.html


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SHORT NEWS:

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    A few thoughts about why logging is important:
    https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/04/why-logging-is-important/



NEW RELEASES:

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    syslog-ng 3.3.9:
    https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-April/000157.html


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-- 
Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/