On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 23:59 +0530, Soham Chakraborty wrote: > Ah, thanks Rainer. I have primarily worked on v5 and hardly tried to > migrate. That was an incoherent musing. > > Thanks, I stand corrected. > no problem - these facts should probably more prominently mentioned (as an old datacenter guy, I originally thought these things are just to be expected, but I learned that that's not true nowadays ;)).
Rainer > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Rainer Gerhards > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 22:28 +0530, Soham Chakraborty wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I think a sane approach would be to note down the directives you are > > using > > > un v5 and then comparing them with v7 to see how they differ, in behavior > > > and documentation. > > > > This never happens in rsyslog. Once a directive and its behaviour is > > introduced, it is immutable, specifically to not break anything. > > However, some directives may become obsoleted, but that is rare. > > Differences can always be found in the compatibility notes, right from > > the main doc page. The most recent version is always available online: > > > > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/manual.html > > > > Older versions are in the respective release tarballs. > > > > > If your syslog stuff is maintained/supported/used by > > > others, probably educate them too. Keep the working v5 config file handy > > so > > > that you can revert to v5, if things don't work as expected with v7 and > > you > > > need to debug. > > > > > > Particular use case testing is the best method that I can think of. > > > > > Testing is always a good idea, it is always possible that there is some > > regression nobody detected. Or that an old version did not properly > > catch an error in the config, where the new one does. > > > > As general advise, one should look at rsyslog startup messages > > (syslog.*). Many people do not record them and so are puzzled when > > things go wrong where otherwise a message is available that explains in > > plain words the cause ;) > > > > HTH > > Rainer > > > > > Soham > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Josh Bitto <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Currently I'm running version rsyslog-5.8.10-6.el6.x86_64......So did > > some > > > > checking and there is a stable release of rsyslog 7.2.6 ST is > > available. I > > > > looked at the release notes and the bug fixes and should I be cautious > > when > > > > upgrading or is it pretty straight forward? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Joshua Bitto > > > > Information Technologist > > > > KCC > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
