[gentoo-user] syslog-ng changed format of config-file

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng changed format of config-file

[Dan Johansson]

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Today after running an "update world" (which included syslog-ng-3.2 ->
syslog-ng-3.4), I restarted syslog-ng and got the following two messages:

WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, syslog-ng is running in
compatibility mode Please update it to use the syslog-ng 3.4 format at
your time of convinience, compatibility mode can operate less
efficiently in some cases. To upgrade the configuration, please review
the warnings about incompatible changes printed by syslog-ng, and once
completed change the @version header at the top of the configuration file.;
WARNING: global: the default value of log_fifo_size() has changed to
10000 in syslog-ng 3.3 to reflect log_iw_size() changes for tcp()/udp()
window size changes;


I do have some customizations in my syslog-ng.conf so I have not yet
installed the quite minimalistic new syslog-ng.conf
(._cfg0000_syslog-ng.conf).

Does anyone have a link to some good documentation on how to upgrade a
3.2 configuration to 3.4?

Regards,
-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng changed format of config-file

[Alan McKinnon]

On 07/07/2013 10:16, Dan Johansson wrote:
> Today after running an "update world" (which included syslog-ng-3.2 ->
> syslog-ng-3.4), I restarted syslog-ng and got the following two messages:
> 
> WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, syslog-ng is running in
> compatibility mode Please update it to use the syslog-ng 3.4 format at
> your time of convinience, compatibility mode can operate less
> efficiently in some cases. To upgrade the configuration, please review
> the warnings about incompatible changes printed by syslog-ng, and once
> completed change the @version header at the top of the configuration file.;
> WARNING: global: the default value of log_fifo_size() has changed to
> 10000 in syslog-ng 3.3 to reflect log_iw_size() changes for tcp()/udp()
> window size changes;
> 
> 
> I do have some customizations in my syslog-ng.conf so I have not yet
> installed the quite minimalistic new syslog-ng.conf
> (._cfg0000_syslog-ng.conf).
> 
> Does anyone have a link to some good documentation on how to upgrade a
> 3.2 configuration to 3.4?

I haven't found a upgrade guide but the admins guide is very complete:

http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-ose-3.4-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin/pdf/syslog-ng-ose-v3.4-guide-admin.pdf

You could start by looking up your custom settings in the guide tosee if
you brought any incompatibilities into play



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com