FWIW, syslog-ng source is an easy (patch-free) compile on Solaris using gcc:
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/BuildRecipesReference#syslog-ng And as such, has been integrated into the SFE (pkgbuild) repository. However SFE is only a non-Sun community supported project. Eric On Wed, 23 May 2007, Brian Gupta wrote: > Doh, wrong forum. I meant to drop it in sfwnv. (A mistake that I am > correcting now). :)... > > Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for that smf link!! I didn't know > about that wiki! (I've sent the link to a colleague for > consideration.) > > Thanks, > Brian > > On 5/23/07, Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> wrote: >> * Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> [2007-05-23 13:03]: >> > (Sorry for not doing the homework myself, but the question keeps >> > popping into the back of my head for follow up, but I haven't had >> > time). >> >> I am assuming you mean integrating syslog-ng into a consolidation, >> rather than just the smf(5) service conversions, like those given in >> >> http://www.technicalarticles.org/index.php/Setting_Up_a_Syslog-NG_Host_on_Solaris_10 >> >> and >> >> http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com/2007/03/smf-manifests-for-isc-dhcpd-splunk-and.html >> >> I believe the most recent discussion on syslog enhancement was held on >> networking-discuss last year >> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2006-June/007612.html >> >> but there may have been others. A syslog update is not required by >> any of the smf(5) plans I know of, although smf(5)'s own use of >> logging needs some consistency/completeness work... >> >> - Stephen >> >> -- >> sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ >> > _______________________________________________ > sfwnv-discuss mailing list > sfwnv-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sfwnv-discuss >
