I took the liberty to record a quick (aka "not excellent" ;)) video of the installation process on Debian:
http://youtu.be/3lPDV_qMoLQ Hope this is useful. Rainer 2014-10-10 7:54 GMT+02:00 Balint <[email protected]>: > On 10/10/2014 03:53, David Lang wrote: > >> On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: >> >> Hello, >>> >>> We recently had a new Logsene <http://sematext.com/logsene/> user who >>> had >>> some issues tailing a file with application logs and sending them to our >>> rsyslog. After some digging we looked at the rsyslog version. It turned >>> out to be 5.x. Ancient! But even scarier was that this was on Ubuntu >>> 12.04, which I still think of as relatively new! And then I looked at >>> Ubuntu 14.04 and the upcoming 14.10 and it looks like they only have >>> 7.4.4. I then looked at CentOS 7, which is really new, and that also has >>> 7.4.x! >>> >>> Aren't all of these quite old and quite different from 8.4.x? >>> Are there *any* semi-common/popular Linux distros that have rsyslog 8.x? >>> >> >> 8.x came out just too late to make it into the early 2014 distros as the >> default >> >> Finally, is there anything Adiscon could do or is doing to get 8.x into >>> new >>> versions of some of the more popular Linux distros? >>> >> >> Adiscon (and others) are providing packages of the new versions that can >> be installed in the older distros, there are PPA repositories for Ubuntu. >> >> The problem is that distros are always going to lag behind current >> development, and the faster the pace of development, the more they will >> lag. Part of the problem is the delay from when versions are selected and >> the time that the distro is released. >> >> In case of Logsene, if we see people having trouble with rsyslog simply >>> because their distros have very old versions of rsyslog, we may simply >>> have >>> to recommend Logstash, because when we recommend that we can be pretty >>> sure >>> people will either have or will get one of the more recent versions.... >>> and >>> this is probably much easier to install because, I assume, manually >>> updating rsyslog is tricky because of dependencies, packages, etc. >>> >> >> If you look at the versions of logstash that are in the distros, you will >> see that they are as old as the versions of rsyslog. >> >> But you are assuming incorrectly that there is a huge dependency problem >> installing a new rsyslog package. I would suggest that you try it and see >> how easy it is. >> > well, I use 8.4.x version on CentOS 6 and I didn't have problem with > dependency. I found everything that I had to have. I think they were in > EPEL or in rsyslog repo. > anyway, there are rsyslog repos on rsyslog project site. > > >> I was wondering if there is anything that could be done about this from >>> rsyslog or Adiscon side? >>> >> >> Only the distro maintainers can update the versions that are included in >> the distros. I don't know why they stuck with 5.x for so long (they >> basically ignored 6.x and didn't start including 7.x until 8.x was already >> out). There isn't much that Adiscon or the Rsyslog developers can do. >> >> Seriously, try updating from the Adiscon repositories/PPA, it's really >> easy. >> >> David Lang >> _______________________________________________ >> 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.
