On 10/29/20 1:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
On 10/29/20 12:49 AM, Geoff Swan via lfs-dev wrote:
Hi,
I've build many LFS systems using sysklogd as per the book. However new
remote logging systems are asking for logging features that sysklogd
does not possess.
These include port changes (other than what is in /etc/services, which
is where syklogd picks up its port) and logs being sent over TCP with
TLS on a configurable port (RFC5424/25).
I examined a couple of replacements and see that rsyslog appears to
include these features .
Before starting on replacing the logger in my system build I thought I'd
ask the question as to whether any thoughts had been given to upgrading
LFS from sysklogd to a more modern package for remote logging?
It's something to consider. I don't think many users actually use
remote logging over TLS, but it would be nice to have that available.
If you do add rsyslog, would you please get back to us to let us know
anything you find out including build and configuration instructions. We
probably would not add instructions for remote logging to the book, but
a hint for that would be appropriate.
I do that for myself for years, as I need the additional features
rsyslog brings, so I can contribute some build scripts, if needed.
Be aware thought that rsyslog is a bit of a maintenance nightmare, as it
requires at least three separate libraries by the same author, which are
not used by anyone/anything else in the whole wide world, and are not
included in the source distribution of rsyslog.
I have created a scripts that pre-builds them statically inside the
rsyslog source tree, in order not to bloat my system with the
unnecessary overhead of three libraries only needed by it:
LIBE=`pwd`/libe export LIBE
tar xf /lfs-src/libestr-0.1.10.tar.gz
cd libestr-0.1.10
./configure --prefix=$LIBE --enable-static --disable-shared --with-pic
make || ext
make install
cd ..
tar xf /lfs-src/libee-0.4.1.tar.gz
cd libee-0.4.1
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$LIBE/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=$LIBE
--enable-static --disable-shared --with-pic
make || exit
make install
cd ..
tar xf /lfs-src/libfastjson-0.99.8.tar.gz
cd libfastjson-0.99.8
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$LIBE/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=$LIBE
--enable-static --disable-shared --with-pic
make || exit
make install
cd ..
# and finally rsyslog
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$LIBE/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/usr
--disable-libgcrypt --disable-liblogging-stdlog
Bye
Tim
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