Re: Why change from syslog-ng to rsyslog?

Hi John;

On Do, 2021-05-13 at 10:27 +0100, John Sager wrote:
> I've just moved to 7.0.2 from a series 6 and I suddenly find my
> logging 
> setup is no more. Why was the change made?
> 

syslog-ng years ago added glib libraries s requirement, which is a huge
package and uses a lot of RAM just to have a syslog daemon.
So the decision was either to stick with an outdated and unmaintained
version of syslog-ng, wasting RAM or to move to something else...

As you see we decided for option 3.



> The main reason for upgrading was to test out using nftables instead
> of 
> iptables, and I have managed to build nftables 0.9.8 to work with
> 7.0.2 (had 
> to upgrade libnftnl to 1.1.9 too).
> 
> Looks like I'll have to regress to the previous version until I can 
> ready-made translators that I can find:(
> 
> regards,
> 
> John Sager
> 

kp


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