rsyslog / rsyslog-pkg-debian

Build system for Debian packages

Rsyslog - what is it?

Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing.

It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. While it started as a regular syslogd, rsyslog has evolved into a kind of swiss army knife of logging, being able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations.

Rsyslog can deliver over one million messages per second to local destinations when limited processing is applied (based on v7, December 2013). Even with remote destinations and more elaborate processing the performance is usually considered "stunning".

Mailing List

http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog

Installing rsyslog

Most distributions carry rsyslog in their repository. So you usually just need to use the package manager to install it. Note that on non-systemd systems (most notably Ubuntu), rsyslog usually is already installed.

Project-Provided Packages

Unfortunately, distributions often do not catch up with the pace of rsyslog development and as such only offer old versions. To solve that problem, we have created packages for current versions ourselves.

They are available for:

• RPM-based systems: https://www.rsyslog.com/rhelcentos-rpms/
• Ubuntu: https://www.rsyslog.com/ubuntu-repository/
• Debian: https://www.rsyslog.com/debian-repository/

Building from Source

Follow the instructions at: https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/installation/build_from_repo.html

Build Environment

In general, you need

• pkg-config
• libestr
• liblogging (stdlog component, for testbench)

It is best to build these from source.

CentOS 6 / RHEL

For json-c, we need:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/lib64/pkgconfig/

sudo yum install git valgrind autoconf automake flex bison python-docutils python-sphinx json-c-devel libuuid-devel libgcrypt-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel libcurl-devel gnutls-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel libdbi-dbd-mysql libdbi-devel net-snmp-devel

Ubuntu

Add Adiscon repository:

apt-get update && apt-get install -y software-properties-common
add-apt-repository -y ppa:adiscon/v8-stable

Note: if you are a developer who wants to work with git master branch, adding the Adiscon repository is probably not a good idea. It then is better to also compile the supporting libraries from source, because newer versions of rsyslog may need newer versions of the libraries than there are in the repositories. Libraries in question are at least: libestr, liblognorm, libfastjson.

Needed packages to build with omhiredis support:

apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential pkg-config libestr-dev libfastjson-dev zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libgcrypt20-dev libhiredis-dev uuid-dev libgcrypt11-dev liblogging-stdlog-dev flex bison

Aditional packages for other modules:

libdbi-dev libmysqlclient-dev postgresql-client libpq-dev libnet-dev librdkafka-dev libgrok-dev libgrok1 libgrok-dev libpcre3-dev libtokyocabinet-dev libglib2.0-dev libmongo-client-dev

For KSI, from the Adiscon PPA:

sudo apt-get install libksi0 libksi-devel

Debian

sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config libestr-dev libfastjson-dev zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libgcrypt20-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev zlib1g-dev liblogging-stdlog-dev flex bison

Note: For certain libraries version requirements might be higher, in that case adding debian backports repositories might help. For example installing with apt libfastjson-dev -t stretch-backports.

Aditional packages for other modules:

libdbi-dev libmysqlclient-dev postgresql-client libpq-dev libnet-dev librdkafka-dev libgrok-dev libgrok1 libgrok-dev libpcre3-dev libtokyocabinet-dev libglib2.0-dev libmongo-client-dev

openSUSE 13

sudo zypper install gcc make autoconf automake libtool libcurl-devel flex bison valgrind python-docutils libjson-devel uuid-devel libgcrypt-devel libgnutls-devel libmysqlclient-devel libdbi-devel libnet-devel postgresql-devel net-snmp-devellibuuid-devel libdbi-drivers-dbd-mysql

For the testbench VMs:

sudo zypper install gvim mutt

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11

Available packages:

zypper install gcc make autoconf libtool flex bison

Missing packages:

libcurl-devel valgrind python-docutils uuid-devel libgcrypt-devel libgnutls-devel libmysqlclient-devel libdbi-devel postgresql-devel net-snmp-devel libdbi-drivers-dbd-mysql json-c zlib-dev libdbi

Reporting Bugs

Talk to the mailing list if you think something is a bug. Often, it's just a matter of doing some config trickery.

File bugs at: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues

How to Contribute

Contributions to rsyslog are very welcome. Fork and send us your Pull Requests.

For more information about contributing, see the CONTRIBUTING file.

Note that it is easy to add output plugins using languages like Python or Perl. So if you need to connect to a system which is not yet supported, you can easily do so via an external plugin. For more information see the README file in the external plugin directory.

Documentation

The main rsyslog documentation is available in HTML format. To read it, point your web browser to ./doc/manual.html. Alternatively, you can view the documentation for the most recent rsyslog version online at: https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/

Project Philosophy

We are an open source project in all aspects and very open to outside feedback and contribution. We base our work on standards and try to solve all real-world needs (of course, we occasionally fail tackling actually all needs ;)). While the project is primarily sponsored by Adiscon, technical development is independent from company goals and most decisions are solely based on mailing list discussion results. There is an active community around rsyslog.

There is no such thing like being an official member of the rsyslog team. The closest to that is being subscribed to the mailing list: http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog

This method of open discussions is modelled after the IETF process, which is probably the best-known and most successive collaborative standards body.

Project Funding

Rsyslog's main sponsor Adiscon tries to fund rsyslog by selling custom development and support contracts. Adiscon does NOT license rsyslog under a commercial license (this is simply impossible for anyone due to rsyslog's license structure).

Any third party is obviously also free to offer custom development, support and rsyslog consulting. We gladly merge results of such third-party work into the main repository (assuming it matches the few essential things written down in our contribution policy).

rsyslog-pkg-debian's Issues

Debian package for Jessie

Hello,

I see that the provided package on rsyslog's website : http://www.rsyslog.com/debian-repository/
is only working Debian Wheezy.

Is there any plan to release a package for Debian Jessie ? This would be great.

Best regards,

Add -imjournal package

/usr/lib/rsyslog/lmnsd_gtls.so packaged twice

/usr/lib/rsyslog/lmnsd_gtls.so is present both in rsyslog.deb and rsyslog-gnutls.deb. This leads to an uninstallable rsyslog-gnutls package:

$ apt-cache policy rsyslog
rsyslog:
  Installed: 8.8.0.ad1-2
  Candidate: 8.8.0.ad1-2
  Package pin: 8.8.0.ad1-2
  Version table:
 *** 8.8.0.ad1-2 1100
        500 http://debian.adiscon.com/v8-stable/ wheezy/ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.8.11-3+deb7u2 1100
        500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages

$ sudo apt-get install rsyslog-gnutls 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  gnutls-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rsyslog-gnutls
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/161 kB of archives.
After this operation, 232 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 60937 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking rsyslog-gnutls (from .../rsyslog-gnutls_8.8.0.ad1-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rsyslog-gnutls_8.8.0.ad1-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/rsyslog/lmnsd_gtls.so', which is also in package rsyslog 8.8.0.ad1-2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/rsyslog-gnutls_8.8.0.ad1-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

regression in flushinteval, module omfile, version 8.26

Last upgrade from 8.22 to 8.26 introduce regression in flushinterval parameter, which stop working.
Example configuration, which worked before upgrade:
$OMFileASyncWriting On
$OMFileFlushInterval 10
$OMFileFlushOnTXEnd off
$OMFileIOBufferSize 65536

libfastjson broken

the new libfastjson installs at /usr/lib/libfastjson.so.4.0.0 whereas rsyslog is compiled expecting /usr/lib/libfastjson.so.3.0.0

Resulting error:

rsyslogd: error while loading shared libraries: libfastjson.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

mmexternal missing in core package

rsyslog omkafka on Debian 7 wheezy

I've installed the rsyslog version 8.27.0-1.deb, from this link, on my Linux Debian 7 wheezy. Now i'd like to add the omkafka module, but i didn't find any way how to add it. Any idea ?

please include omkafka in package builds

Thanks :-)

(assuming this project is used to make packages available in http://debian.adiscon.com/v8-stable/)

Debian package for stretch

Hello,

as follow to issue #5 do you plan to create a package for debian stretch ?

Hugo