-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku+KUsACgkQrlYvE4MpobNBeQCfRvP3ykhSY8xaAMCL6PlOY+18 fY8AoIo2TyUSPXEYDiUWs5ts/U6IMh8B =G3LL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
