Peter Czanik

Fedora also plans to retire the pcre package and any packages still depending on it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PcreRetirement

Oh, this thread somehow stayed under the radar until now. I do not have any influence on the JSON version used during compilation. EPEL and Fedora Copr (where I compile...

Testing ARM should be a lot faster now, as instead of emulation, it runs now on Ampere servers. At least my Twitter feed was loud about it a few weeks...

The problem is that there is no standardized naming scheme for the syslog-ng configuration. All distros have a different name for local logs. The three most popular names are: *...

```--disable-cpp``` can be used as a workaround.

@HofiOne mentioned today, that the C++ plugin has problems with CLANG, and only works with GCC. FreeBSD only has CLANG available by default. GCC is a huge dependency people only...

Yes, ```--disable-cpp``` disables compiling these modules. However, there were FreeBSD users asking for OpenTelemetry support, so I checked it again: * using clang still does not work: https://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/issues/4652 * gcc...

The idea of a per Python module requirements.txt came up already a couple of times: for example installing Kubernetes related modules does not make sense at all on FreeBSD. Right...

No. It's an almost default openSUSE syslog-ng.conf: ``` # # Global options. # options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); perm(0640); stats(freq(3600)); threaded(yes); }; ``` And if you take a closer look at...

When using the following config with a syslog() source on the same host: ``` source net { syslog(transport(tcp) port(6666)); }; destination fromnet { file("/var/log/fromnet" template("$(format-json --scope everything)\n\n")); file("/var/log/fromnet.txt"); }; log...