On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Michael Biebl wrote:
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.
These are all issues with the default config file.
If you use an appropriate config file is there any reason to believe that the
packages will have any problems?
In any case, if you install a new version, won't it ask you if you want to keep
the old config file or upgrade to the new version? or does this only happen if
the old config file has been modified?
David Lang
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