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Archive for June, 2011
Log messages in 3d
Algernon has created a nice 3d visualization for log messages, 12 days compressed into one and a half minutes of video. Very nice music too 
The post describing how it works is here.
Behind the scenes: syslog-ng 3.3
I just wanted to let you know, that fixes are nicely coming into the 3.3 beta tree, although it might not be very visible from th outside.
So if you consider trying out 3.3, I’d suggest to try a git snapshot instead of the 3.3beta1 tarball.
I’m trying to release a beta2 or rc1 in the near future. The version number depends on how much feedback we get until then
Repository for syslog-ng 3rd party modules
I long wanted to create a repository to hold things that were not yet integrated into the syslog-ng codebase. Things can happen to be in this phase either because of technical reasons, which are not addressed, or because of lack of time. Surely, if I was maintaining the repository the time issue wouldn’t have been solved, but fortunately Algernon has stepped up and started it, which means that whenever I’m distracted modules can have a place to be.
The intent is to have these migrated to the official source code if time permits.
Right now, it has the SMTP destination, but probably will receive other goodies in the future.
I’m happy