Remplacer syslog de Centos 5 par syslog-ng

Récupérer les packages de syslog-ng :

#wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/eventlog-0.2.5-6.el5.kb.i386.rpm

#wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/syslog-ng-2.0.3-1.el5.kb.i386.rpm

Installation des packages :

# rpm -i eventlog-0.2.5-6.el5.kb.i386.rpm

# rpm -i –force –nosignature syslog-ng-2.0.3-1.el5.kb.i386.rpm

Mettre syslog-ng par défaut :

# chkconfig syslog off
# chkconfig syslog-ng on

Pour tester :

#service syslog stop

#service syslog-ng start

vérifiez que les logs apparaissent dans /var/log/messages :

#tail /var/log/messages

Dec  1 15:39:35 localhost kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Dec  1 15:39:35 localhost kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Dec  1 15:39:36 localhost exiting on signal 15
Dec  1 15:39:44 localhost syslog-ng[14006]: syslog-ng starting up; version=’2.0.3′