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Installing rsyslog from RPM

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in Basic Configuration, Guides for rsyslogTagged , , , , ,

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 file. Using your webbrowser, go to http://rpms.adiscon.com. Here, either download the rsyslogall.repo file or go to the subfolder for the desired version (e.g. v7-stable) and download the rsyslog.repo file from there.

2. Placing the file in the correct location

You now need to place the downloaded file in the correct folder. The .repo file must be placed in

/etc/yum.repos.d/

3. Finding updates

You should now do a “yum update”. The update for rsyslog will be detected automatically. Note, that the file rsyslogall.repo contains the repository configuration for each available branch, whereas the rsyslog.repo only provides repository configuration for the selected branch.

A note on signed RPM’s

On RHEL/CentOS 5 it is not possible to check for signed RPM’s. This is due to a bug in the RPM/YUM subsystem. So, Please DO NOT USE gpgcheck=1! If you however couldn’t resist trying it, and your system stucks with “Header V3 RSA/SHA1 signature: BAD, key ID e00b8985″, follow these steps:

  1. Set gpgcheck in your rsyslog.repo file back to 0.
  2. Run this command to remove the gpg key from your system: rpm –erase gpg-pubkey-e00b8985-512dde96

How to use the Ubuntu repository

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in FAQTagged , , ,

The Adiscon Ubuntu Repository has been setup to provide support for the latest rsyslog versions on Ubuntu 12 including support for necessary third party packages. Please note that the Ubuntu Repository is open for testing at the moment, and contains only the latest version for v7-devel. The new packages are based in the original and latest Ubuntu 12 rsyslog packages, so in most cases an simple sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade will be enough to update rsyslog. Please note that these packages are currently experimental. Use at your own risk.

To use our repository, follow these steps:

  1. Install our PGP Key into your apt system

    sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com AEF0CF8E

  2. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add these lines to the end

    # Adiscon repository
    deb http://ubuntu.adiscon.com/v7-devel precise/
deb-src http://ubuntu.adiscon.com/v7-devel precise/

  3. Once done perform these commands to update your apt cache and install the latest rsyslog version

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

  4. If you receive a message like this while upgrading follow these steps below:

    The following packages have been kept back:
    rsyslog
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

    sudo apt-get install rsyslog

We highly appriciate any feedback or bug reports.

The newest information will be available on the Ubuntu Repository project page.

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