Re: Why change from syslog-ng to rsyslog?

On Fr, 2021-05-14 at 11:22 +0100, John Sager wrote:
> So I've fixed up to use rsyslog - I have rules to log firewall-related
> stuff 
> (I'm not using shorewall) into a separate file and it turned out to be
> just 
> a 2-line addition to rsyslog.conf. However I also found a couple of
> issues 
> with logrotate:
> 
> 1) The script /usr/bin/logrotate is old and assumes the log file group
> to be 
> 'wheel' but rsyslog uses 'adm'. I fixed that with a 'GROUP' variable in
> logrotate.d/syslog but perhaps the script ought to be updated.
> 
Ok, I fixed it there.


> 2) logrotate.d/syslog still assumes the log daemon to be syslog-ng.
> 

Are you shure? I see 
# DAEMON - restart this service after logrotation                     
DAEMON=rsyslog

in git.

kp 

> regards,
> 
> John
> 
> On 13/05/2021 10:27, 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?
> > 
> > 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
> > translate my syslog-ng setup into rsyslog. There don't seem to be any
> > ready-made translators that I can find:(
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > John Sager
> > 
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