[syslog-ng] mysql destination on el6, with syslog-ng 3.8

[Glen Johnson]

I can attest libdbi-dbd-mysql, from this repo, is working on CentOS 6.
Thanks!

Glen

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
wrote:

> OK, my syslog-ng EPEL6 repository now has a libdbi-driver package with
> mysql support. It is backported from Fedora (I had to replace MariaDB with
> MySQL in the dependencies). It's untested, as I don't have access to my
> CentOS 6 vm at the moment.
>
> Bye,
>
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yeah, that's what I also assumed. But I just realized, that the driver
>> part is a separate package: libdbi-drivers. I'll check if I can also add
>> that one to my EPEL6 repo. If not I rather disable libdbi all together not
>> to confuse people.
>> It's the first time that someone is missing it, so SQL destinations is
>> not much in use...
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
>> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
>> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
>> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Fabien Wernli <wernli at in2p3.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 04:39:41PM -0900, Glen Johnson wrote:
>>> > It appears the syslog-ng38epel6 on COPR uses libdbi 0.9.0 from el7.
>>> When
>>> > attempting to install syslog-ng from here, on an CentOS 6 instance, and
>>> > then install libdbi-dbd-mysql, yum is unable to find appropriate
>>> version of
>>> > libdbi-dbd-mysql to install.  On el6, only libdbi 0.8.3 appears to be
>>> > available, which yum does not think is compatible with libdbi 0.9.0.
>>> Not
>>> > sure how to use syslog-ng's mysql destination on CentOS/RHEL 6 due to
>>> > this.  Any insight how to solve this, without creating a separate
>>> copr/obs
>>> > build, would be appreciated !
>>>
>>> the dependency is also available on COPR [1]
>>>
>>> [1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng38ep
>>> el6/package/libdbi/
>>>
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