syslog-ng

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 04/08/2010 10:02 AM, Peter Czanik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm helping to upgrade syslog-ng to current version in major Linux
> distributions. I would like to ask, if you could update syslog-ng to
> version 3.1. I'm working on the openSUSE version of syslog-ng 3.1 (
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/czanik:/branches:/Base:/System/openSUSE_Factory/src/
> ), and it is also being upgraded in Debian (
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/syslog-ng.html ) and Gentoo (
> http://gentoo.linuxhowtos.org/portage/app-admin/syslog-ng ) and Mandriva
> ( http://sophie.zarb.org/viewrpm/b8182fa1eee109cc655a020a2cb62f5f ).
> 
> For a complete list of changes, please see:
> http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.0.5/changelog-en.txt
> http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.1.0/changelog-en.txt
> 
> Major changes from the packaging point of view:
> 
> - addition of new utilities:
> /usr/bin/pdbtool
> /usr/sbin/syslog-ng-ctl
> 
Are these tools executed by init scripts or just by administrators?
> - apparmor (or SElinux in case of Fedora) needs some extra permissions:
> /var/run/syslog-ng.ctl rw,
Is this a sock_file?
> /var/run/syslog-ng/additional-log-sockets.conf r,
Why not put syslog-ng.ctl in /var/run/syslog-ng?
> capability sys_tty_config,

What other processes need to read/write in these directories or sock_files?
> 
> Version 3.0 also added SSL support among many other changes, but that
> can't be enabled on openSUSE (configure arg: --disable-ssl): syslog-ng
> is in /sbin, openssl libs are in /usr/lib, linking from /usr is not
> allowed in /, and SSL is not available statically for security reasons.
> As far as I can see (I have a Fedora 13 snapshot installed in vmware),
> Fedora has the same problem.
> 
> Please let me know, if you need any additional help/information to get
> syslog-ng updated for Fedora.
> 
> Best regards,
> Peter Czanik
> 

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