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Wed Nov 15 16:51:27 UTC 2017

Thanks for the quick response.  Appreciate the info!

Craig L Bowser
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Kókai Péter <peter.kokai at balabit.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> > 1. Will syslog-ng run just fine receiving udp and sending udp with those
> errors and without that module? If, so, I don’t care if I don’t get that
> module.
>
> The modules most of the time are independent, and the network (udp, tcp)
> are independent of the afql module, so as long as you do not want to use
> SQL in configuration it shall be fine.
>
> > 2. Is it possible to run syslog-ng and disable that module in the run
> command?
>
> In the 3.2 version it loads a few modules by default based on the build
> configuration, this can be turned off with "@autoload-compiled-modules 0",
> with using this also make sure that nor in your configuration nor in the
> included files (scl.conf, module.conf) you do not have "@module afsql".
>
> In this case it should not try to load the module. (I did not try it
> myself, this is purely based on code and documentation)
>
> > 3. Can I remove syslog-ng and re-install disable that module on install?
>
> I do not think it is possible with install, but via config (see above).
>
> > 4. I’d rather not recompile if I don’t have to, but I found instructions
> for how to do that. Any tips would be appreciated.
>
> Would you like to re-compile the 3.2 version ?
> For newer version you could check either the docker image file:
> https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/blob/master/
> dbld/images/centos7/Dockerfile (it has steps to create an environment to
> compile syslog-ng in centos6)
> Alternatively you could check our Travis CI file for steps:
> https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/blob/master/.travis.yml (unfortunately
> this is for ubuntu)
>
> extra:
> > yum install --downloadonly syslog-ng-libdbi
>
> The SQL is depending on the libdbi, which is not part of the syslog-ng, so
> you should try to find the libdbi packet instead of the syslog-ng-libdbi
>
>
> --
> Kokan
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 5:16 PM craig bowser <reswob10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I installed syslog-ng on an offline CentOS 6.x machine by first
>> downloading all required rpms using this command:
>>
>>
>> yumdownloader --resolve syslog-ng
>>
>>
>> There were two files needed, that did not download and I downloaded them
>> separately using:
>>
>>
>> yumdownloader eventlog-0.2.13-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
>>
>>
>> and:
>>
>>
>> yumdownloader libnet-1.1.6-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
>>
>>
>>
>> These are the files I moved to the offline server:
>>
>>
>> 17,684 eventlog-0.2.13-1.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 17,804 eventlog-0.2.13-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> 122,940 gamin-0.1.10-9.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 1,738,964 glib2-2.28.8-9.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 4,570,040 glibc-2.12-1.209.el6_9.2.i686.rpm
>>
>> 117,400 libgcc-4.4.7-18.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 60,464 libnet-1.1.6-7.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 59,196 libnet-1.1.6-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> 111,688 libselinux-2.0.94-7.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 309,920 libstdc++-4.4.7-18.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 161,168 nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-23.3.el6_8.i686.rpm
>>
>> 201,096 pcre-7.8-7.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 452,548 syslog-ng-3.2.5-4.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 451,092 syslog-ng-3.2.5-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> 63,536 tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6-58.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> 74,284 zlib-1.2.3-29.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>>
>>
>> Once I moved all these files to the offline server into their own folder,
>> I ran:
>>
>>
>> rpm –ivh *.rpm
>>
>>
>> to install.
>>
>>
>>
>> I then checked the config file, made a couple of tweaks, then started
>> syslog-ng using:
>>
>>
>> service syslog-ng start
>>
>>
>>
>> I got the following errors:
>>
>>
>>
>> Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/lib64/syslog-ng',
>> module='afsql'
>>
>> Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/lib64/syslog-ng', module='afsql'
>>
>> [ OK ]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Syslog-ng was now running, just with these two errors.
>>
>>
>>
>> A quick google pointed to the problem, syslog-ng is looking for the sql
>> plugin and the solution:
>>
>> yum install syslog-ng-libdbi
>>
>>
>>
>> But when I tried to run
>>
>>
>> yumdownloader syslog-ng-libdbi
>>
>>
>> I got
>>
>>
>> "Nothing to download"
>>
>>
>> And when I tried
>>
>>
>> yum install --downloadonly syslog-ng-libdbi
>>
>>
>> I got
>>
>>
>> "Nothing to do"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> So here are my questions:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1.       Will syslog-ng run just fine receiving udp and sending udp with
>> those errors and without that module?  If, so, I don’t care if I don’t get
>> that module.
>>
>> 2.       Is it possible to run syslog-ng and disable that module in the
>> run command?
>>
>> 3.       Can I remove syslog-ng and re-install disable that module on
>> install?
>>
>> 4.       I’d rather not recompile if I don’t have to, but I found
>> instructions for how to do that.  Any tips would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Craig L Bowser
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