On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hi there, > >> 4 is after a bunch of rapid developement, it's starting to appear in some >> distros > > So is 4 likely to be discontinued, or will 4 leapfrog 5 and become 6?
4 will go into stable mode like 3 is now. 4 and 5 were under development at the same time, but the changes for 5 were so drastic that Rainer didn't feel comfortable doing them in the normal development version. 4 settled down a few months ago, it looks like 5 is settling down now. I think we have already hit one bug that may not end up getting fixed in 4 as the fix would be too invasive (when Rainer declares a version stable he is _very_ careful about changes to it, even if that means leaving something broken to avoid a substantial risk of breaking other things) people are finding more bugs in rsyslog in recent months, most of the bugs that they have been finding are not new bugs, but are instead the result of more people useing rsyslog in more different ways (the fact that most distros have switched to rsyslog for their next release, if not their last release, has drasticly increased it's use) >> 5 is the current version, it is _much_ faster than previous version. > > Fast is good! > >> so if you are compiling anyway, I would suggest giving 5.3.6 a try, if you >> find anything that doesn't work, post here and you will probably get a fix >> quickly (note that the main developer is in germany, so you do have the >> time zone lag to deal with) > > Right - I'll get to work on a spec file. Anyone got any gotchas to share? the big thing is that it is sensitive to config file errors, make sure that your startup script doesn't hide such errors from the user. David Lang _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
