You do not have to live without your favorite syslog implementation even in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux AMI. This Linux distribution is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 and it is minimal extra work to install syslog-ng on it.
You do not have to live without your favorite syslog implementation even in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux AMI. This Linux distribution is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 and it is minimal extra work to install syslog-ng on it.
When a user reports a problem with syslog-ng, developers create code to fix it. The fix is called a patch or a pull request (PR) in Git terminology. Often this code does not enter the main source code automatically but developers ask the user to test…
Last week, I described why and how to install the latest stable syslog-ng RPM packages. There are some situations, when even the latest stable release is not good enough. If you have any issues with the latest stable release, there is a good chance that…
As a follow-up to my RPM blog, here are instructions installing syslog-ng Open Source Edition (syslog-ng OSE) on the Debian / Ubuntu version. If you read my previous blog, skip to the installation part at the end, otherwise: read on.
The syslog-ng application…
The syslog-ng application is included in all major Linux distributions, and you can usually install syslog-ng from the official repositories. If the core functionality of syslog-ng meets your needs, use the package in your distribution repository (yum…