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Paul Stear posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:34:02 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Thanks Duncan, that was the problem. I put an entry in package.use and |
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> all is well libdbi is not now required. As far as I know I do not need |
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> sql for syslog-ng which I have been using for years without any problem. |
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> I wonder if this is a new flag for that program. |
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It seems to be, yes. A quick epkginfo to see what versions are available |
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says there's a 2.0 and a 2.1 version in-tree, in addition to the 3.x |
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version that's new. A quick emerge -pv =<version> on the 2.x versions |
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did indeed show the flag as disappearing, so it must be new, or at least |
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newly unmasked. |
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But there's a few other changes with the 3.x version as well. I have a |
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bit of a customized syslog config, spitting out various messages to |
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specific files and filtering a few of them, and I had to google for a |
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couple of the new features as it was protesting that the ones I was using |
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were deprecated and not particularly well performing. |
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But the sql thing is either for hyper-control people (and I thought /I/ |
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was bad!) or more practically, for those using a syslog server to manage |
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a few hundred or thousand machines. In that case, yes, I could see how a |
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database backend could be /quite/ helpful indeed! But I don't see any |
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reason for someone running it for just their own machine, or even for 2-3 |
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machines on a home network, to need the extra complexity of the database |
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setup. Maybe at a half-dozen or so machines, if they're all logging to a |
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central server... |
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Anyway, to maybe save you some trouble if you have multiple filters |
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configured, the former match filter is now much broader. To get similar |
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functionality to the previous, simply s/match/message/. Other than that, |
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and the SQL building problems you experienced, it seems to be pretty much |
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the same, tho somewhat more powerful than it was if you need it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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