Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

[Matthew Hatch]

Hi,

I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin
and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some
features that are useful and pretty standard today in most syslog
daemons (ie: support for multi-line messages).  Is there any chance of
getting an updated version (say, 3.7+) built and released?

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Re: Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin
> and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some
> features that are useful and pretty standard today in most syslog
> daemons (ie: support for multi-line messages).  Is there any chance of
> getting an updated version (say, 3.7+) built and released?

All versions after 3.2 don't work on Cygwin anymore because the
syslog-ng developers introduced a module loader mechanism incompatible
with Cygwin.

Updating to a newer version requires considerable porting effort.

If somebody has fun to take over syslog-ng maintainership and work
with upstream on a modernised Cygwin port, please feel free.


Corinna

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Re: Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

[Matthew Hatch]

On 08/18/2016 03:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin
>> and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some
>> features that are useful and pretty standard today in most syslog
>> daemons (ie: support for multi-line messages).  Is there any chance of
>> getting an updated version (say, 3.7+) built and released?
>
> All versions after 3.2 don't work on Cygwin anymore because the
> syslog-ng developers introduced a module loader mechanism incompatible
> with Cygwin.
>
> Updating to a newer version requires considerable porting effort.
>
> If somebody has fun to take over syslog-ng maintainership and work
> with upstream on a modernised Cygwin port, please feel free.

Thanks for the response! If recent versions of syslog-ng are no longer
suitable for Cygwin, would it make sense to dump it in favor of
rsyslogd, provided it doesn't also have similar issues with porting?
I'm no developer and wouldn't be the one to take up such a project,
but I'm just curious.

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin
>> and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some
>> features that are useful and pretty standard today in most syslog
>> daemons (ie: support for multi-line messages).  Is there any chance of
>> getting an updated version (say, 3.7+) built and released?
>
> All versions after 3.2 don't work on Cygwin anymore because the
> syslog-ng developers introduced a module loader mechanism incompatible
> with Cygwin.
>
> Updating to a newer version requires considerable porting effort.
>
> If somebody has fun to take over syslog-ng maintainership and work
> with upstream on a modernised Cygwin port, please feel free.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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> Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Red Hat

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Re: Is there a newer syslog-ng in the works?

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Aug 18 13:35, Matthew Hatch wrote:
> On 08/18/2016 03:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin
> >> and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some
> >> features that are useful and pretty standard today in most syslog
> >> daemons (ie: support for multi-line messages).  Is there any chance of
> >> getting an updated version (say, 3.7+) built and released?
> >
> > All versions after 3.2 don't work on Cygwin anymore because the
> > syslog-ng developers introduced a module loader mechanism incompatible
> > with Cygwin.
> >
> > Updating to a newer version requires considerable porting effort.
> >
> > If somebody has fun to take over syslog-ng maintainership and work
> > with upstream on a modernised Cygwin port, please feel free.
> 
> Thanks for the response! If recent versions of syslog-ng are no longer
> suitable for Cygwin, would it make sense to dump it in favor of
> rsyslogd, provided it doesn't also have similar issues with porting?
> I'm no developer and wouldn't be the one to take up such a project,
> but I'm just curious.

I never looked into rsyslog sources so I can't tell, but probably it
has similar issues requiring a major porting effort.  Ideally some
developer with a bit of spare time and interest in the issue would
put some effort into porting the latest versions of either syslog-ng
or rsyslog.


Corinna

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