Re: syslog-ng RPM request?

> Hope this is the right place to ask this. Has there
> been any thought to the addition of syslog-ng to the
> repos? It might be too much of a specialty item but if
> you have a need for advanced syslog filtering (host
> based logging, logging to a database, syslog spoofing,
> and many other advanced features) then syslog-ng is a
> big help. I use it on centralized remote log servers
> and have been building my own RPMs. It comes with a
> spec file and is pretty easy to get RPMs built, just
> hoping it makes it into someones apt repository. :)
>
> The easiest thing to do is get the latest stable
> snapshot of libol and syslog-ng. It comes with good
> distro config files in the contrib directory within
> the tar ball. If built from the included spec file it
> will replace the existing syslog service with
> syslog-ng, log rotation, etc.
>
> Packages if interested:
> http://www.balabit.com/downloads/syslog-ng/1.6/src-snapshot/libol-0.3.16+20050624.tar.gz
> http://www.balabit.com/downloads/syslog-ng/1.6/src-snapshot/syslog-ng-1.6.8+20050815.tar.gz
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

I've been packaging syslog-ng for awhile now and haven't had any problems
with my packages (not surprising).  I've been meaning to try to get these
included in RPMForge, but haven't tried too hard yet.
At any rate, you can check out my packages here:

http://www.silfreed.net/download/repo/packages/syslog-ng/

-Doug