On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hi there, > > I've spent a long time picking through changelogs, but I'm afraid I > don't have a clear understanding of what to choose between versions of > rsyslog.
2 is ancient, it's only in RHEL because that is the version that was out when RHEL5 was released and they never upgrade software (by policy) 3 was the stable about a year ago. This is in Debian 5 4 is after a bunch of rapid developement, it's starting to appear in some distros 5 is the current version, it is _much_ faster than previous version. unfortunantly the current 5.2 'stable' release is known to be very buggy. 5.3.6 was released a week ago, and it is believed to be the best version. several of us are testing it (I put in it production on a couple dozen machines in friday, so I should find anything that affects my environment by monday). The expectation is that this will replace the broken 5.2 very shortly. so if you are compiling anyway, I would suggest giving 5.3.6 a try, if you find anything that doesn't work, post here and you will probably get a fix quickly (note that the main developer is in germany, so you do have the time zone lag to deal with) David Lang > My platform is RHEL 5 - the distro ships with 2.0 which seems to be > both ancient and deprecated. > > If I have to build a new package, it would be good to understand which > version I should choose. For example. Rawhide has a 4.x package, > which would be the obvious starting point. > > My overall objective is to be able to aggregate syslog and also Drupal > watchdog logs in a central location, and index them with Solr, to > produce a data mart/wharehouse. > > I look forward to enlightenment! > > TIA, > > S, > > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
