syslog-ng: A syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme1

syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd allows messages only to be sorted based on priority/facility pairs; syslog-ng adds the possibility to filter based on message contents using regular expressions. The new configuration scheme is intuitive and powerful. Forwarding logs over TCP and remembering all forwarding hops makes it ideal for firewalled environments.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: https://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/

Author: Balazs Scheidler
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: OpenSource
Status: Stable
Version: 4.9.0

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/ syslog-ng-4.9.0.tar.gzsyslog-ng-4.9.0.tar.gz

T2 source: etc_syslog-ng.conf
T2 source: syslog-ng.cache
T2 source: syslog-ng.desc
T2 source: syslog-ng.init

Build time (on reference hardware): 90% (relative to binutils)2

Installed size (on reference hardware): 6.15 MB, 663 files

Dependencies (build time detected): bash binutils coreutils curl diffutils findutils gawk glib grep gzip json-c libcap linux-header m4 mailcap make openssl pcre2 python rustc sed sysfiles tar tbb tcp_wrappers zlib

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

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2) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).

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