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CzP @ Linuxwochen: syslog-ng, AMQP, and 3D printers
Last week I was at Linuxwochen in Wien as part of the Fedora team. As most of the presentations were in German and my German knowledge isn't that good any more as was in high school, I spent most of my time at the Fedora booth. We had many visitors: ...
Using the RFC5424 syslog protocol with plain TCP between rsyslog and syslog-ng
Even if the overwhelming majority of syslog users still uses the old RFC3164 syslog protocol, there are some people who use RFC5424. This RFC only describes the protocol but not the actual transport. The next two RFCs after RFC5424 describe UDP and TLS transport. There is also a dead by birth ...
Compiling syslog-ng with MS SQL support for RHEL / CentOS & Co.
Why logging is important?
People who know that I'm working on a logging software (syslog-ng) often ask me, why logging is so important. Obviously many of these people only use desktop machines and learn about logging only when their root partition fills up because /var/log overflows with logs. But there are also people more aware of ...
CzP @ LOADays
This year I visited LOADays ( http://loadays.org ) again. For those, who don't know this conference: it's held annually in Antwerp, Belgium and it's name stands for Linux Open Administration Days, so it has one single focus: sysadmins. This also means that even if the conference isn't that big as ...
