[syslog-ng] syslog-ng Insider - February 2013

[Peter Czanik]

Dear syslog-ng users,


This is the 21th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter 
that brings you syslog-ng related news.

Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at 
documentation at balabit.com <mailto:documentation at balabit.com>


FEATURED NEWS


Video: Basic building blocks of syslog-ng.conf

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There is a video series in the work to introduce the basics of 
syslog-ng. The second video is online now, which explains the basic 
building blocks of syslog-ng.conf. You can watch it at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3OjHQj42Jg

New videos will be published on the same Youtube channel. You are very 
welcome to subscribe to receive notifications about further syslog-ng 
videos and other interesting content.


Syslog-ng 3.4.1 is released

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Version 3.4.1was released at the end of January. Compared to the 
RC2release, it only has some minor bugfixes. This version brings many 
major new features to syslog-ng: junctions and channels to make 
syslog-ng configuration even more flexible, a community contributed AMQP 
destination, improved JSON support including a parser and many value 
pairs related improvements. For more details, check 
http://algernon.blogs.balabit.com/2013/01/syslog-ng-ose-3-4-1-released/

You cancheck the announcement 
athttps://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000154.html

For binary package availability check our 3^rd party binary page at 
http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/downloads/3rd_party

At the time of this writing there are v3.4.1 packages for openSUSE and 
SLES, not only as 3^rd party packages but also as part of the openSUSE 
12.3 release. It's also available for FreeBSD in the 
sysutils/syslog-ng-devel port, and already in Fedora Rawhide. Packages 
for various Debian and Ubuntu releases are available in algernon's repo.


syslog-ng at conferences: FOSDEM and Brno

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The syslog-ng team is actively participating in the life of the open 
source community. Last weekend CzP gave a talk at FOSDEM and 
participated a two day long brainstorming session about logging and 
monitoring in Antwerp. He met many interesting people from the syslog-ng 
community. You can read about his experiences at 
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/02/czp-fosdem-2013/

We will also participate http://devconf.cz/ and the systemd hackfest the 
day before the conference. If you are also there and want to talk about 
syslog-ng, we are more than happy to meet you!


SHORT NEWS:


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    To use cacti with syslog-ng, check configuration examples at
    https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/01/trying-cacti-with-syslog-ng/

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    What's new presentation in Hungarian for syslog-ng 3.4 with
    configuration examples:
    http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/downloads/presentations/syslog-ng-ose-3.4-new-stuff/
    and
    http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/downloads/presentations/syslog-ng-ose-3.4-new-stuff.tar.xz


NEW RELEASES:

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    syslog-ng OSE
    3.4.1:https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000154.html

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