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

Tue Jan 2 09:04:04 UTC 2018

Hi,

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" as I don't know how reliable download
statistics for the Fedora Copr build service are. On the other hand right
now it seems that syslog-ng Redhat 6 had almost 100x more downloads during
the last seven days than for RHEL 7 and any Fedora releases combined. 228k
downloads in a week for RHEL 6 and <3k for the rest. My guess is (I only
see the numbers, not where the downloads originated) that AWS Linux AMI is
based on RHEL 6 and that's why numbers are so high. But even without AWS
about 1/4 to 1/3 of RHEL users seems to be still on RHEL6. My guess is,
that not counting embedded users (Kindle, BMW, Synology, NI, etc.) about
20% of our users is affected by this problem (SLES11, older ubuntu LTS
releases are also affected).

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 5:06 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:

> 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_L
>> IBRARY_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/syslo
>> g-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/i
>>> nstalling-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
>>>
>>>
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