Thx!
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 9:33 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] difference from v. 3.22 and 5.4.0 > > go ahead and pull them togeather. > > David Lang > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Rainer Gerhards > wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:19:55 +0100 > > From: Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> > > Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> > > To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] difference from v. 3.22 and 5.4.0 > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
