[test-pkg-a] Please backport syslog-ng 3.1.1

[Peter Czanik]

Lucid has version 2.0.9 of syslog-ng. This is a very old release, many important features were added to syslog-ng, since 2.X was released. Ubuntu Maverick has version 3.1.1, and hopefully will get 3.1.2 before release (which is available in Debian testing and there is a separate bug for it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623181 ).

There are many new features:
- SSL
- database support
- patterndb
- filtering
- rewriting
- etc.
For a more detailed list, please check: http://www.balabit.hu/downloads/files/syslog-ng/sources/2.1.4/changelog-en.txt , http://www.balabit.hu/downloads/files/syslog-ng/sources/3.0.8/changelog-en.txt and http://www.balabit.hu/downloads/files/syslog-ng/sources/3.1.2/changelog-en.txt

syslog-ng is a leaf package, there are no packages depending on it.

The configuration for version 3.X changed slightly, but syslog-ng can use the original 2.X configuration file without modifications (it assumes, that any unversioned configuration files are from 2.0, which is true in this case).

Peter Czanik / syslog-ng upstream

[Cosme Domínguez (cosme)]

Test packages available:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-backports-testers/+archive/ppa

Please test!

[Peter Czanik (pczanik)]

OK, tested basic functionality (no database tests yet), and it seems to work fine. I'll try databases, but most likely not this week.
Thanks for packaging!
CzP / syslog-ng upstream

[Peter Czanik (pczanik)]

Database support (mysql) is also tested now, and it works fine.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503621 also confirms that it works.
CzP / syslog-ng upstream

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

$ apt-cache rdepends syslog-ng
syslog-ng
Reverse Depends:
 jffnms

Please test jffnms with it too. It only needs to be basic testing.

[Peter Czanik (pczanik)]

I spent an hour trying to set up jffnms, but it failed well before I could test the syslog-ng part:

[Sun Aug 29 22:47:34 2010] [error] [client 192.168.2.179] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function authenticate() on a non-object in /usr/share/jffnms/htdocs/auth.php on line 50

It's a php problem, and I could find a solution by using Google.

I looked at the manual at www.jffnms.org/docs/jffnms.pdf how it is connected to mysql. It uses a helper script, which should work as before. It could even work without the helper script, as syslog-ng version 3.1 is able to log to mysql directly.

CzP / syslog-ng upstream

[Peter Czanik (pczanik)]

Syslog-ng in Maverick is now updated to 3.1.2, which has many bugfixes included. Could you also update?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslog-ng/+bug/623181

CzP / syslog-ng upstream

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Ack from ubuntu-backporters. Approved.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I: Extracting syslog-ng_3.1.2-1.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of syslog-ng as 3.1.2-1~lucid1 ... done.