Why .deb rather than source?

[drnic]

By using the .deb the bosh release can only be used on Debian stemcells - source/nxlog-ce_2.9.1347_ubuntu_1404_amd64.deb

https://nxlog.org/products/nxlog-community-edition/download includes "Source code" option (albeit the version is older; wtf?)

[dpb587]

Unfortunately, yes.

@mrdavidlaing inquired about the missing 2.9 source tarball and the
response was they were working through some legal hurdles, but it would be
up soon. That was many months ago.

More recently, logstash (and so logsearch) dropped SSLv3 in favor of TLS.
Nxlog 2.8 doesn't support TLS, but 2.9 does.

For the short term, we decided to use the DEB so we could continue and
Ubuntu is the only environment we've been using. Can add other ones, if you
want to send a PR and the DEB download link.

For the long term, it'd be nice to just switch to using rsyslog which is
packaged in the stemcell. I haven't made time to do that and don't have
much experience with rsyslog config writing yet.

In the meantime, open to other ideas, too.

On Friday, November 20, 2015, Dr Nic Williams [email protected]
wrote:

By using the .deb the bosh release can only be used on Debian stemcells -
source/nxlog-ce_2.9.1347_ubuntu_1404_amd64.deb

https://nxlog.org/products/nxlog-community-edition/download includes
"Source code" option (albeit the version is older; wtf?)

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Danny Berger
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[mrdavidlaing]

FWIW, I think we should give up on NXLog; and switch to using the embedded rsyslog like most other bosh releases

[drnic]

If it's helpful I made a little simple-remote-syslog-boshrelease after I looked at this repo and nxlog boshrelease. I borrowed all of it from other releases; but perhaps it's a useful starting point for you?

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 7:01 AM, David Laing [email protected]
wrote:

FWIW, I think we should give up on NXLog; and switch to using the embedded rsyslog like most other bosh releases

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[mrdavidlaing]

@drnic - found it - thanks!

https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/simple-remote-syslog-boshrelease

Out of interest, what are you using to forward logs to syslog?