[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng versions available with RHEL 6

[Evan Rempel]

No need to even try. Starting at 3.10 there are glib2 requirements that 
are not present in Redhat 6.
Give that Redhat 6 is fully supported by Redhat until 2020 (2 more 
years) I am very disappointed that it has been abandoned by the 
syslog-ng developers. There are a number of memory leaks and performance 
fixes that are in syslog-ng 3.10 and later that can not be ported to the 
Redhat 6 platform.

Evan.

On 12/30/2017 07:54 AM, Ronald Fenner wrote:
> If you can build it from source here's the relevant parts of my build script for syslog-ng NOTE: this runs under amazon's linux version.
>
> wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.0.2-bin.zip
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to get gradle"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> unzip gradle-4.0.2-bin.zip
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to unpack gradle"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> /bin/rm -rf /opt/gradle-4.0.2
> mv gradle-4.0.2 /opt/gradle-4.0.2
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to move gradle"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle-4.0.2/bin
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java/jre/lib/amd64/server:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> wget https://my.balabit.com/downloads/eventlog/0.2/eventlog_0.2.12.tar.gz
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to get eventlog"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> tar -zxf eventlog_0.2.12.tar.gz
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to unpack the eventlog"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> cd eventlog-0.2.12
> ./configure
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to configure the eventlog"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> make
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to make the eventlog"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> make install
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to install eventlog"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
>
> wget https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/download/syslog-ng-3.11.1/syslog-ng-3.11.1.tar.gz
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to get syslog-ng"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> tar -zxf syslog-ng-3.11.1.tar.gz
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to unpack syslog-ng"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> cd syslog-ng-3.11.1
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to change to the syslopg-ng directory"
>      ls -l
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/syslog-ng --enable-json --enable-java --enable-java-modules --enable-python --with-python=2.7
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to configure syslog-ng"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> make
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to make syslog-ng"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
> make install
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>      echo "Failed to install syslog-ng"
>      exit 1
> fi
>
>
> Ronald Fenner
> Programmer
> Game Circus LLC.
>
> rfenner at gamecircus.com
>
>> On Dec 30, 2017, at 1:10 AM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately for RHEL 6 the latest version is 3.9. That is available from this repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng39epel6/
>>
>> See https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/1403 for details.
>>
>> 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 Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Scheidler, Balázs <balazs.scheidler at balabit.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe this article helps: https://www.balabit.com/blog/installing-latest-syslog-ng-on-rhel-and-other-rpm-distributions/
>>
>> It also contains information on 3.13.
>>
>> -- 
>> Bazsi
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Carter, Jed <JCARTER15 at partners.org> wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>>   
>>
>> I am currently running syslog-ng OSE version 3.7 and RHEL 6.  I'm trying to update my syslog-ng OSE through EPEL.  It looks like the only way to get syslog-ng v3.12 is from RHEL 7.  What is the latest version of syslog-ng OSE that is supported by RHEL 6?
>>
>>   
>>
>>   
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Jed
>>
>>   
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Jed Carter
>>
>> GCIH, GSEC, CEH
>>
>> Information Security Engineer
>>
>> Partners Health Care
>>