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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Michael Biebl
  • Date: 2008-05-03 09:59:59 UTC
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  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20080503095959-3zue1idtwaf9zu6m
Tags: 3.16.1-1
http://bugs.debian.org/479117
* New upstream release.
  - Fixes a segfault in the imklog input plugin. Closes: #479117

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<meta content="de" http-equiv="Content-Language"><title>rsyslog vs. syslog-ng - a comparison</title></head>
 
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<meta content="de" http-equiv="Content-Language"><title>rsyslog vs. syslog-ng - a comparison</title>
 
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<body>
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<h1>rsyslog vs. syslog-ng</h1>
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<p><small><i>Written by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a>
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<td valign="top"><b>rsyslog</b></td>
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<td valign="top"><b>syslog-ng</b></td>
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<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br><b>Input Sources</b><br></td>
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<tr><td valign="top">UNIX domain socket</td>
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<td valign="top">yes</td>
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<td valign="top">UNIX domain socket</td>
 
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<td></td>
 
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<td valign="top">UDP</td>
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<td valign="top">yes</td>
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<td valign="top">TCP</td>
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<td valign="top">yes</td>
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<td valign="top">yes</td>
 
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<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.librelp.com">RELP</a></td>
 
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<td valign="top">RFC 3195/BEEP</td>
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<td valign="top">yes (needs separate build process)</td>
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<td valign="top">no</td>
 
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<td></td>
 
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<td valign="top">kernel log</td>
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<td valign="top">mark message generator as an optional input</td>
 
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<td valign="top">no (?)</td><td>
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<td valign="top">no (?)</td>
 
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<td valign="top">Windows Event Log</td>
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<td valign="top">via <a href="http://www.eventreporter.com">EventReporter</a>
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or <a href="http://www.mwagent.com">MonitorWare Agent</a>
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(both commercial software)</td>
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<td valign="top">via separate Windows agent, paid edition only</td>
 
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<td colspan="3" valign="top"><b><br>Network (Protocol) Support</b><br></td>
 
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<td valign="top">syslog over RELP<br>this is a truely reliable solution (plain tcp syslog can lose messages!)</td>
 
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compression</td>
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<tr><td valign="top">Filtering for syslog facility and priority</td>
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<td valign="top">Filtering for sending IP address</td>
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<td valign="top">ability to filter on any other message
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<td valign="top">yes</td>
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<td valign="top">powerful BSD-style hostname and
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program name blocks for easy multi-host support</td>
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<td></td>
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<p>While the <span style="font-weight: bold;">rsyslog</span>