[ale] Wimped RE: Ubuntu upgrade from -9.04 to -9.10 replaced 'syslog-ng' with'rsyslog'

[James Sumners]

This was probably done to stay in-line with Debian --
http://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog .

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Mills John M-NPHW64
<Jmills at motorola.com> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> 'aptitude' reported that 'syslog-ng' had been removed but its configuration files were preserved.
>
> I took the coward's way out: when I asked 'aptitude' to remove 'rsyslog' it offered alternatives. Number 3 was to install 'syslog-ng' and I took that route. This put 'rsyslog' into the state of 'removed, preserving configuration files' at least a not-bad outcome.
>
> My test logs immediately came back to life.
>
> Longer term, does this mean 'syslog-ng' is effectively at End-of-Life as far as Linux distros?
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> Comments welcome.
>
>  - Mills
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Mills John M-NPHW64
> Sent: Thu 11/4/2010 10:01 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Ubuntu upgrade from -9.04 to -9.10 replaced 'syslog-ng' with'rsyslog'
>
> ALErs -
>
> I finally upgraded to Karmic and - whoops - lost my remote syslog filtering. I see the upgrade changed the log server and now I must choose: configure 'rsyslog' as I had 'syslog-ng' or replace 'rsyslog' with 'syslog-ng'.
>
> I liked the syntax of 'syslog-ng' filtering ('flames > /dev/null' of course), plus I had the filters working as I wished.
>
> How have other users addressed this?
>
> TIA.
>
>  - Mills


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