[CentOS] rsyslog not loading relp

Tue Oct 29 20:28:29 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>
> wrote:
>>> centos 6.4, setup to be syslog server. Doing remote syslog using tcp
>>> works fine, so now want to add relp. I installed the rsyslog-relp
>>> package and told rsyslog.conf to use it:
>>>
>>> # RELP Syslog Server:
>>> $ModLoad imrelp  # provides RELP syslog reception
>>> $InputRELPServerRun 20514
>>>
>>> when I restart rsyslog I am told it does not like my InputRELPServerRun
>>> line:
>>>
>>> Oct 28 13:43:54 scan rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
>>> swVersion="5.8.10" x-pid="7102" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
>>> Oct 28 13:43:54 scan rsyslogd: the last error occured in
>>> /etc/rsyslog.conf, line 23:"$InputRELPServerRun 20514"
>>>
>>> Any clues?
>>
>> Dumb question...do you have librelp installed?
>>
>    Never a dumb question! I've done that way too many times. The
> rsyslog-relp Should have installed it. Just to be sure, I went and
> looked for /lib64/rsyslog/imrelp.so:
>
> [root at scan ~]# ls -lh /lib64/rsyslog/imrelp.so
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 11K Sep  9 09:58 /lib64/rsyslog/imrelp.so
> [root at scan ~]#

Oh, boy - here's a nasty thought (that I thought of, because I'd just run
into it fighting fedora last week): you *might* try running depmod....

       mark
>>
>> "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever
>> just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1

Damn it, Jack, I'm an explorer, not a SEAL team member!