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Hello, the upcoming Debian Lenny release will ship with RSyslog 3.18.1 and it should also be the default syslog daemon.

I would like to ask if I'll be able to achieve the following goal with such version or if I'll have to install from sources since I'm not sure that what I want is achievable with a version prior to 3.19.0.

I have a few machines on a "semi-private" network, cleartext communications between hosts could be acceptable but I'd like to encrypt RSyslog streams.

I plan on running RSyslog on each machine and one "main host" among them will also have a MySQL server running for centralized logging.

Will I be able to have all the RSyslog daemons communicate with the main host using secure connections without having to deal with stunnel?
I would be fine with them accessing the database directly or passing through the RSyslog instance running on the main host.

Regards,
Luigi

• Custom written rsyslog.conf?
• Maintenance Contract?
• Installation support?

Rainer's got a great tutorial up at http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_tls.html, but I don't believe it works on pre 3.19.x versions. I might be wrong, though - I've not had time to test it.

-HKS