Last week I wrote about a campaign that we started to resolve issues on GitHub. Some of the fixes are coming from our enthusiastic community. Thanks to this, there is a new syslog-ng-devel port in MacPorts, where you can enable almost all syslog-ng features…
Last week One Identity released version 4.8.0 of its open-source log management application. Learn about some of the new features and bug fixes: why upgrade to the latest syslog-ng version, not only on FreeBSD :-)
If you want to try syslog…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 118th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
You know that support for MacOS is important when every third visitor at the syslog…
Version 4.6.0 of syslog-ng features not just a new, native log collector for MacOS, but also darwin-oslog-stream(), which can also collect non-persistent log events. Beware that it can collect many megabytes of logs even in just a few minutes! However…
You know that support for MacOS is important when every third visitor at the syslog-ng booth of Red Hat Summit asks if syslog-ng works on MacOS. With the upcoming syslog-ng version 4.6.0, syslog-ng not only compiles on MacOS, but it also collects local…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 108th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Version 4.1.1 of syslog-ng is now available. It brings PROXY protocol v2 support…
Installing syslog-ng on Mac is easy, if you use Homebrew for 3rd party packages. Previously, you had to install dependencies and then compile syslog-ng from source. Now, a single command takes care of everything:
brew install syslog-ng
Syslog…
Each new MacOS release brings some surprises when it comes to compiling syslog-ng. MacOS Ventura has been released recently, while Homebrew has also been updated. So here are some updated instructions for MacOS Ventura (and also for the last MacOS minor…
Most of syslog-ng works perfectly well on MacOS; however, there is no native driver to collect local log messages. Due to this, in the past, the system() source did not work on MacOS, thus the default syslog-ng configuration failed to start. Version 3…
Version 3.36 of syslog-ng brings us many interesting new features. There is now basic support for system() source on MacOS, TLS 1.3 ciphers can now be restricted, TLS keylog support was added, symlink creation to the latest file, and there are many new…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 98th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Balázs Scheidler, founder of the syslog-ng project, started a new blog where he details why and…
Each new MacOS release brings some surprises when it comes to compiling syslog-ng. Just a couple of months ago, I provided you with a couple of pointers on how to compile syslog-ng on MacOS. Since then, MacOS Monterey was released and Homebrew was updated…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 96th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
Version 3.35.1 of syslog-ng is released. New features include:
APT repo for x86 Debian…
One of the returning questions I get at conferences in the US is if and how syslog-ng works on MacOS. Thanks to Yash Mathne, who worked on syslog-ng as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student this year, we have a much more precise answer now. To sum it…
For the past couple of months, Yash Mathne has been working on testing syslog-ng on MacOS as a GSoC (Google Summer of Code) student. He worked both on x86 and on the freshly released ARM hardware. And we have some good news here to share: while there…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 79th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
For many years – especially after syslog-ng changed to a rolling release…
Dear syslog-ng users,
This is the 78th issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news.
I define syslog-ng as an “Enhanced logging daemon with a focus on portability and high-performance…
I define syslog-ng, as an “Enhanced logging daemon with a focus on portability and high-performance central log collection”. One of the original goals of syslog-ng was portability: running the same application on a wide variety of architectures and operating…
Mac support is a returning question among syslog-ng users, especially when I talk to users in the US. For recent releases, each commit is automatically tested on macOS, on the other hand there is not much information available on Mac support. Recently…
