David, sorry for the sluggish response, but as you see right at the moment really a *lot* is going on. I really like your postings on this topic. As another measure, do you mind if I pull them together - almost literally - and create a blog post out of them (or would you like to do a guest posting?)?
Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 9:17 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] difference from v. 3.22 and 5.4.0 > > > thanks for doing this,what you have is a good start. > > > wnother tidbit from git, between 3.22.0 and 5.7.1 there were 1388 > commits, > with 11539 lines of commit logs (~6 lines per commit are boilerplate, > but > that's still averaging about 4 lines of comment per commit) > > DavidLang > > On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, > Florian Riedl wrote: > > > David, > > > > Rainer adressed me with the task to compile such a list. > > > > A first draft can be found here: > > http://www.rsyslog.com/features/ > > > > I will expand it a bit more and look up the version information that > is yet > > missing, which is still a lot. > > > > Florian > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > > Sent: Sonntag, 7. November 2010 08:36 > > To: rsyslog-users > > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] difference from v. 3.22 and 5.4.0 > > > > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > >> I run gentoo linux (kernel 2.6.33) and rsyslog version 3.22 > >> > >> In the course of a system update today, rsyslog version 5.4.0 was > >> installed, but it crashes immediately when started. > >> > >> I've done no testing or diagnostics as yet, just went back to > version > >> 3.22. I wanted to find out first if there have been major changes > that > >> might help diagnose the problem. > > > > the changes between 3.22 and 5.4 are huge. you would have to go > though the > > git tree to see them all, but that's such a huge amont of development > that > > it's not really practical > > > > doing a little digging through git. > > > > v5.7.1 has 835 files, 241044 lines, 997701 words, 8971232 characters > > > > the diff between v.3.22.2 and v5.7.1 is 71367 lines long, and the > diffstat > > says 625 files changed, 45917 insertions(+), 9128 deletions(-) > > > >> Any tricky gotchas that might be involved? > > > > oh yes. the locking has changed (a couple times), threading has > improved > > dramatically, parsing has been completely re-done, the ability to > process > > multiple messages at once has been added, the ability to bind > > separate rulesets to inputs (and have the results ofone filter feed > onto a > > ruleset, in fact the entire concept of rulesets..), it's gained the > > ability to load multiple parsers (either in a stack or tied to > specific > > inputs). > > > > in the process it has gained a lot of capibilities and speed > (improving by > > at least two orders of magnatude) while keeping the logs at least as > safe > > as they were before. > > > > > > > > as for where to start troubleshooting, the best thing to do with > something > > like this where it crashes on startup is to start it in debug mode > and > > read through the output. odds are you have some sort of fatal typo in > the > > config file and reading through the debug output as it parses the > config > > file will identify the error. > > > > David Lang > > > > P.S. Rainer, you really do need to do some sort of feture timeline to > show > > the drastic nature of what's changed. even if you just took a couple > of > > hours to do a git log and then wed out the merges and trivial > commits, the > > highlights that remain would be very impressinve and give people a > good > > idea how much more advanced 5.x is from 3.x > > _______________________________________________ > > rsyslog mailing list > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > http://www.rsyslog.com > > _______________________________________________ > > rsyslog mailing list > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > http://www.rsyslog.com > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
