We made some major changes to the way the RPMs for CentOS7/RHEL7 are built. We have adapted the spec file definitions of the base repo to build our own RPMs after we detected some trouble with the last released version. That means, that some things will also change, so our RPMs are more like the […]
Installing rsyslog from RPM
We want to describe here, how to install rsyslog from the RPM repository on RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6. Currently, we have RPMs available for the most recent versions of rsyslog. To use the repository, please follow these steps. 1. Obtain the .repo file To be able to use the RPM repository, you need a .repo […]
Install locations for rsyslog
Not everyone uses the same linux distributions. If Linux at all. And some distributions store files different than others. When building a test environment, we stumbled upon the problem, that if we tried the usual know method ./configure –libdir=/lib –sbindir=/sbin rsyslog won’t work. Even if there is already rsyslog installed, but we want to use […]