2012/11/21 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > Michael Biebl maintains experimental v7 packages for Debian. Does anybody > know how to use them with Ubuntu (I am a total noob in this area ;)). Is > this potentially a solution for those folks interested in running a recent > version on top of Ubuntu? > > Any insight appreciated (will probably add it to wiki or rsyslog site). >
There will most likely be some issues: - rsyslog on Ubuntu drops privileges by default, Debian doesn't. I might change that in the future, but will have to evaluate first the impact of the change. Apparently there are still various issues with DynaFiles etc. in the Ubuntu package. - rsyslog on Ubuntu uses upstart job files - rsyslog on Ubuntu has split out the configuration into /etc/rsyslog.conf and /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf (the actual logging rules being in 50-default.conf) whereas in Debian I use a single rsyslog.conf. - some libraries required by v7 might not be available on older version. E.g. librelp0 or libjson0 are not recent enough on 12.04 (precise) Adapting the rsyslog packages for Ubuntu requires some work, so I wouldn't recommend just installing the Debian packages as is on Ubuntu. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
