On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: >> On 02/02/2011 04:20 PM, Matt wrote: >>> I am excited about CentOS 6.x though. Aren't there supposed to be >>> some neat new features etc for virtualization and cloud computing? >> >> this could be the start of a dangerously long thread nonrelated to OP. >> Why not start a new thread with 'CentOS-6 interesting upcoming features' >> :) > > Ok, here's one: I'm having a problem with syslogd - due to the upper > heirarchy, we've started logging our (*yuck*) Windows servers to our > centralized logging server, and so far, the other admin hasn't managed to > make WinBlows less than maximum verbosity. I know I can do filtering with > syslog-ng and rsyslog, but 5.5 has syslogd. Now, I *thought* I heard one > or the other of those other two was coming in, but thought it would be in > CentOS 5.x; can anyone tell me a) if the change is coming, b) which of the > two it'll be, and c) will it be in 5.6 or 6? > > mark Only rsyslog is in RHEL 6, and neither syslog nor syslog-ng are in EPEL. rpm.pbone.net is not caught up to publishing RHEL/CentOS 6 yet, unfortunately, so I don't have a trivial way to tell you who's published syslog-ng ports that will work well for CentOS 6. It looks like karan.org published syslog-ng for RHEL/CentOS 5, though. The switchover is not too painful, configuration files between syslog and rsyslog are pretty close.