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CentOS 5: how to compile rsyslog from git

By Rainer GerhardsPosted on Posted in FAQ

If you compile rsyslog from git on CentOS 5 you run into the trouble that

autoreconf -fvi

fails, telling you that autotools 2.59 provided by CentOS is too old.

The solution to this problem is to install version 2.61 of autotools. You will probably not want to overwrite the default CentOS package, so you should install it in some alternate location (e.g. /opt) and include that location in the topmost spot of your path. all this can be done as follows:

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.61.tar.bz2
tar xjf autoconf-2.61.tar.bz2
cd autoconf-2.61
./configure --prefix=/opt
make
sudo make install

Then, you need to change your path, for example as follows (this is obviously a temporary alteration!):

export PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH

After these changes, you should be able to run autoreconf for rsyslog.

Changelog for 5.7.3 (v5-beta)

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , , ,

Version 5.7.3 [V5-BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-02-07

  • added support for processing multi-line messages in imfile
    thanks to David Lang for implementing this
  • added $IMUDPSchedulingPolicy and $IMUDPSchedulingPriority config settings
  • added $LocalHostName config directive
  • bugfix: fixed build problems on some platforms
    namely those that have 32bit atomic operations but not 64 bit ones
  • bugfix: local hostname was pulled too-early, so that some config
    directives (namely FQDN settings) did not have any effect
  • bugfix: imfile did duplicate messages under some circumstances
  • added $OMMySQLConfigFile config directive
  • added $OMMySQLConfigSection config directive

Changelog for 6.1.3 (v6-devel)

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , ,

Version 6.1.3 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-02-01

  • experimental support for monogodb added
  • added $IMUDPSchedulingPolicy and $IMUDPSchedulingPriority config settings
  • added $LocalHostName config directive
  • improved tcpsrv performance by enabling multiple-entry epoll
    so far, we always pulled a single event from the epoll interface.
    Now 128, what should result in performance improvement (less API
    calls) on busy systems. Most importantly affects imtcp.

  • imptcp now supports non-cancel termination mode, a plus in stability
  • imptcp speedup: multiple worker threads can now be used to read data
  • new directive $InputIMPTcpHelperThreads added
  • bugfix: fixed build problems on some platforms
    namely those that have 32bit atomic operations but not 64 bit ones

  • bugfix: local hostname was pulled too-early, so that some config
    directives (namely FQDN settings) did not have any effect

  • enhanced tcpflood to support multiple sender threads
    this is required for some high-throughput scenarios (and necessary to
    run some performance tests, because otherwise the sender is too slow).

  • added some new custom parsers (snare, aix, some Cisco “specialities”)
    thanks to David Lang

Changelog for 5.6.3 (v5-stable)

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , ,

Version 5.6.3  [V5-STABLE] (rgerhards), 2011-01-26

  • bugfix: action processor released memory too early, resulting inpotential issue in retry cases (but very unlikely due to anotherbug, which I also fixed — only after the fix this problem here became actually visible).
  • bugfix: batch processing flagged invalid message as “bad” under somecircumstances
  • bugfix: unitialized variable could cause issues under extreme conditionsplus some minor nits. This was found after a clang static code analyzeranalysis (great tool, and special thanks to Marcin for telling me about it!)
  • bugfix: batches which had actions in error were not properly retried inall cases
  • bugfix: imfile did duplicate messages under some circumstances
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