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[JPZ]

Hello,

I have been trying to install rsyslog 5.4.0 on ubuntu but I'm unfortunately running into problems most likely caused by my lack of knowledge with installs from source. I have read and searched around as much as possible but I'm clueless at this point.


steps taken:
installed ubuntu 9.10 server x32 on a VMware Server platform
apt-get remove rsyslog
cd /usr/src/rsyslog/;wget <latest version>
tar xzf <rsyslog file>
cd rsyslog
./configure --enable-zlib --enable-gssapi-krb5
(I enabled them because the original rsyslog 4.2 has them enabled)
make
make install
/etc/init.d/rsyslog start |||||| or |||||| service rsyslog start

ps auwx |grep rsyslog

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root      1704  0.0  0.0   7336   864 pts/1    R+   16:39   0:00 grep rsyslog
syslog    5916  0.0  0.0 209936  1312 ?        Sl   Mar11   1:00 rsyslogd -c4
root     23739  0.0  0.0   8192   424 ?        Ss   Mar11   0:00 dd bs=1 if=/proc/kmsg of=/var/run/rsyslog/kmsg


last lines in /var/log/syslog

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Mar 17 12:56:10 ubuntu-dev kernel: imklog 5.4.0, log source = /var/run/rsyslog/kmsg started.
Mar 17 13:18:31 ubuntu-dev kernel: imklog 5.4.0, log source = /var/run/rsyslog/kmsg started.
Mar 17 13:22:58 ubuntu-dev kernel: imklog 5.4.0, log source = ksyslog started.
Mar 17 13:26:32 ubuntu-dev kernel: imklog 5.4.0, log source = ksyslog started.


I then generate a log entry in /var/log/auth.log by connecting to the server via SSH, but nothing gets logged.

I have included the debug log output in an attachement.


Note: I tried using --prefix=/usr to have rsyslog installed on the same prefix as the original one ( /usr/sbin/rsyslogd and /usr/lib) but it resulted in the same outcome.

Any ideas of what I missed ?

JP

[lzhshen]

I have the same issue except that I install it on Ubuntu 9.10 i386 for test.

Could someone help?