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What is Zorp?

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 02:01 PM Author: Pfeiffer Szilárd
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Briefly Zorp is an open source proxy firewall with deep protocol analysis. It sounds very sophisticated at first, however, the explanation below will make it easy to understand.

Reading e-books

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 @ 09:01 AM Author: Peter Czanik
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For many years, I was looking for a good and affordable e-book reader. I read a lot on the computer, as many text I read are not available in a printed form. Some of them would be even obsolete before I could print them :-) But being environmentally cautious, I try to avoid printing anyway whenever it is possible. Reading from the screen has many disadvantages: it's not so friendly to the eyes and also one can easily be disturbed by incoming e-mail, instant messages, etc. But this Christmas finally brought me an e-book reader!

syslog-ng git repo moved to github

Monday, January 16, 2012 @ 08:01 PM Author: Balázs Scheidler
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I've been playing with github the last couple of months for git hosting, and since I like what I see and users seem to have found this out on their own, I figured this should be official. The git repository is being moved from their old git.balabit.hu location to: syslog-ng 3.3 http://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.3.git syslog-ng 3.4 http://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4.git Older releases (like 3.2) ...

syslog-ng Insider – January 2012

Monday, January 16, 2012 @ 09:01 AM Author: zoli bagi
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 10th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation(at)balabit.com

POLL

We would like to know, which features of syslog-ng do you regard as most important. Please check our survey.

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syslog-ng flexibility improvements

Sunday, January 15, 2012 @ 06:01 PM Author: Balázs Scheidler
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syslog-ng is often referred as a very flexible application when it comes to processing logs. Over the years however, I began to feel that some things are a bit more difficult to achieve in the configuration language than it should be. For instance it is sometimes too rigid when you need a combination of parsers ...

Rsyslog vs. syslog-ng

Thursday, January 5, 2012 @ 01:01 PM Author: Peter Czanik
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Every few days I find references to an rsyslog vs. syslog-ng comparison on the rsyslog site, which has not been updated for more than three years. Since it contains some outdated information about syslog-ng (some of which was incorrect at the time of publishing), I want to make some corrections and updates. Here is a short summary.

One step forward, two steps back

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 @ 06:12 PM Author: Gergely Nagy
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"Un pas en avant, deux pas en arrière La danse sur la corde La recherche du bonheur Un pas en avant, pas en arrière Insensé, sans but La recherche du bonheur"



Graphical User Interfaces for use with syslog-ng

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 @ 01:12 PM Author: Peter Czanik
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Centralized logging of events has been an important part of the IT infrastructure for many years. It is more convenient to browse logs in a central location rather than viewing them on individual machines. Central storage is also more secure. Even if logs stored locally are altered or removed, one can still check the logs on the central log server. Compliance with different regulations also makes central logging necessary. (This is an updated version of my previous syslog-ng web gui blog.)

syslog-ng Insider – December 2011

Friday, December 9, 2011 @ 10:12 AM Author: zoli bagi
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Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 9th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation(at)balabit.com

FEATURED NEWS syslog-ng 3.3.3 is released!

A new version of syslog-ng is released! There are no new features to announce, but most

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syslog-ng and the journal

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 @ 12:12 PM Author: Balázs Scheidler
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There's an ongoing project to create a new logging subsystem for Linux, called the journal, by Lennart Poettering of PulseAudio & systemd fame. It is implemented as a core component of systemd, thus has a good chance to be integrated to all distributions that carry systemd: Fedora, openSUSE, and probably others. The vision and design is ...