Update syslog-ng

[joenoon]

In my containers, syslog-ng was failing to start because of afsql being a default, even though it requires an extra package it be installed. The options were to either install that extra package, or add this argument

[FooBarWidget]

I believe this has already been fixed in version 0.9.4. See commit 6786e73.

Are you on an older version? If so could you check whether 0.9.4 fixes it?

[ruphin]

This has not been fixed in 0.9.4, it is an unrelated issue.
See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslog-ng/+bug/1009920

I recommend using the method described by Moritz Bunkus (moritz-bunkus) in this same thread to fix:

1. Add --default-modules=... to sylog-ng's command line. This can be done by adding the following to /etc/default/syslog-ng:

SYSLOGNG_OPTS="--no-caps --default-modules=affile,afprog,afsocket,afuser,basicfuncs,csvparser,dbparser,syslogformat"

[FooBarWidget]

Fixed in commit 9af37c0.

[kingdonb]

@FooBarWidget I take umbrage with the change --default-modules=...

In my fork of baseimage-docker, I have upgraded to trusty. This option is not supported and causes syslog-ng to fail, leaves lots of detritus in the runsvdir proc-info and results in a restart loop for syslog-ng. I found references to it online, so maybe it was an option in 12.04, but it must have been deprecated, and its absence will cause problems later for when 14.04 comes around as new-LTS.

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I just checked on saucy/13.10 and the missing option is not an issue in the release prior to trusty/14.04, so maybe it's still a good change for the time being, but FWIW the original error "afsql" finally goes away for me with the more current trusty distro, I read that it was fixed in Debian upstream

I proceeded with just --no-caps, and accepting the remainder of your change commit, maybe recommended discarding this bottom-right part of image/config/syslog_ng_default if we can find a better way to do that or if an official trusty fork should emerge...

[FooBarWidget]

I'm planning on upgrading baseimage-docker to Trusty once Trusty is officially released.

[kingdonb]

OK. Thanks for your reply, and from what it looks like on my end you won't have much to do. Works great with minimal changes.

[FooBarWidget]

This change has been obsolete by PR #71. See commit 5cfdd42.