Scribe scribe - syslog-ng and logrotate installer

[L&LD]

Ahh, see, I'm not even smart enough to know what the bug was.

I highly doubt that.

 

[glehel]

Is it normal if the webgui log does not update? Operation stops

 

[akb]

Yeah my syslog webui does not work with this so it is uninstalled for now.

 

[glehel]

I noticed that the /tmp/syslog.log symlink file was written back in a few minutes back to a normal file.

 

[glehel]

I redirected the skynet log file and now looks good

 

[cmkelley]

I redirected the skynet log file and now looks good

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, I've been super slammed with work and personal commitments, and even now I'm not actually at home. I'm sorry the scribe installation didn't work for you, I can try to help you out if you want to try again, although I must be honest, right now my plate is very full.

 

[cmkelley]

scribe v1.1_0 is up.

Note that when v2.0_0 is eventually released (with a menu), you will not be able to go directly from v1.0_0 to v2.0_0, you will need to be on v1.1_0 or later to upgrade to v2.0_0. Okay, technically you could, but it would involve editing a line in scribe.

There was a minor logic error in v1.0_0, when you upgrade to v1.1_0, after the upgrade it will print that v1.0_0 is still installed. Not to fear, it isn't, if you run "scribe status" you will see that v1.1_0 is installed. EDIT: This only occurs if you don't update the example files. If you do update them, it will show that v1.1_0 is installed.

Other than that, a bit of tweaking to the colors and wording, and the logic to support upgrading to v2.0_0 whenever I get around to adding the menu.

 

[Butterfly Bones]

scribe v1.1_0 is up.

Note that when v2.0_0 is eventually released (with a menu), you will not be able to go directly from v1.0_0 to v2.0_0, you will need to be on v1.1_0 or later to upgrade to v2.0_0. Okay, technically you could, but it would involve editing a line in scribe.

There was a minor logic error in v1.0_0, when you upgrade to v1.1_0, after the upgrade it will print that v1.0_0 is still installed. Not to fear, it isn't, if you run "scribe status" you will see that v1.1_0 is installed.

Other than that, a bit of tweaking to the colors and wording, and the logic to support upgrading to v2.0_0 whenever I get around to adding the menu.

I did not get the "v1.0_0 is still installed" doing the update just now. Not that I'm complaining.

                         _ ( )           
       ___    ___  _ __ (_)| |_      __   
     /',__) /'___)( '__)| || '_`\  /'__`\ 
     \__, \( (___ | |   | || |_) )(  ___/ 
     (____/`\____)(_)   (_)(_,__/'`\____) 
     syslog-ng and logrotate installation 
     v1.0_0 (master)  Coded by cynicastic 
          scribe installed version: v1.0_0 (master) 
             scribe GitHub version: v1.1_0 (master) 
 New version available!
 Do you wish to upgrade [y|n] y
 Do you want to update syslog-ng and logrotate example files? [y|n] y
 fetching scribe from GitHub master branch ...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   122    0   122    0     0    266      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   356
100 21727    0 21727    0     0  25088      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 25088

.... %<  snip ------------

setting up scribe ... done. 
 copying rc.func.syslog-ng to /opt/etc/init.d ... done. 
 scribe updated!
 syslog-ng and logrotate example files updated!
 checking configuration for necessary scribe hooks ...
          checking S01syslog-ng ... present. 
         checking service-event ... present. 
            checking post-mount ... present. 
    checking logrotate cron job ... present. 
 checking syslog-ng daemon ...
         syslog-ng syntax check ... okay! 
      checking syslog-ng daemon ... alive. 
          scribe installed version: v1.1_0 (master) 
             scribe GitHub version: v1.1_0 (master) 
                    scribe is up to date!

 

[cmkelley]

I did not get the "v1.0_0 is still installed" doing the update just now. Not that I'm complaining.

                         _ ( )          
       ___    ___  _ __ (_)| |_      __  
     /',__) /'___)( '__)| || '_`\  /'__`\
     \__, \( (___ | |   | || |_) )(  ___/
     (____/`\____)(_)   (_)(_,__/'`\____)
     syslog-ng and logrotate installation
     v1.0_0 (master)  Coded by cynicastic
          scribe installed version: v1.0_0 (master)
             scribe GitHub version: v1.1_0 (master)
 New version available!
 Do you wish to upgrade [y|n] y
 Do you want to update syslog-ng and logrotate example files? [y|n] y
 fetching scribe from GitHub master branch ...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   122    0   122    0     0    266      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   356
100 21727    0 21727    0     0  25088      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 25088

.... %<  snip ------------

setting up scribe ... done.
 copying rc.func.syslog-ng to /opt/etc/init.d ... done.
 scribe updated!
 syslog-ng and logrotate example files updated!
 checking configuration for necessary scribe hooks ...
          checking S01syslog-ng ... present.
         checking service-event ... present.
            checking post-mount ... present.
    checking logrotate cron job ... present.
 checking syslog-ng daemon ...
         syslog-ng syntax check ... okay!
      checking syslog-ng daemon ... alive.
          scribe installed version: v1.1_0 (master)
             scribe GitHub version: v1.1_0 (master)
                    scribe is up to date!

Oh, ooops, you'll only get the installed version still being v1.0_0 if you don't update the example files. I'll update the post.

 

[Butterfly Bones]

Oh, ooops, you'll only get the installed version still being v1.0_0 if you don't update the example files. I'll update the post.

Ok, I can see that. I used to check against example files on GitHub, but now know I leave them alone, so unless you have changed something in them to improve handling, I never look at them, just trust to update.

I can see where some who have not been knee deep in the syslog-ng mud before might be hesitant to update them.

 

[L&LD]

Smooth update from v0.1 to v1.1_0 here. Updated both.

 

[L&LD]

Working on 384.12 Alpha 1.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/384-12_alpha-builds-testing-all-variants.56639/#post-491571

 

[Xentrk]

I migrated to 384.11_2 last night. I just tried to install scribe with the following curl error:

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                         _ ( )
       ___    ___  _ __ (_)| |_      __
     /',__) /'___)( '__)| || '_`\  /'__`\
     \__, \( (___ | |   | || |_) )(  ___/
     (____/`\____)(_)   (_)(_,__/'`\____)
     syslog-ng and logrotate installation
     v1.1_0 (master)  Coded by cynicastic


 fetching scribe from GitHub master branch ...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   122    0   122    0     0     99      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--   233
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain
More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

 scribe GitHub repository is unavailable!  -- Aborting.

 

[glehel]

can someone help you how to set up loggly?

 

[Martineau]

I migrated to 384.11_2 last night. I just tried to install scribe with the following curl error:

                            _
                         _ ( )
       ___    ___  _ __ (_)| |_      __
     /',__) /'___)( '__)| || '_`\  /'__`\
     \__, \( (___ | |   | || |_) )(  ___/
     (____/`\____)(_)   (_)(_,__/'`\____)
     syslog-ng and logrotate installation
     v1.1_0 (master)  Coded by cynicastic


 fetching scribe from GitHub master branch ...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   122    0   122    0     0     99      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--   233
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain
More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

 scribe GitHub repository is unavailable!  -- Aborting.

Is this relevant? post #510

 

[Twiglets]

I migrated to 384.11_2 last night. I just tried to install scribe with the following curl error:

                            _
                         _ ( )
       ___    ___  _ __ (_)| |_      __
     /',__) /'___)( '__)| || '_`\  /'__`\
     \__, \( (___ | |   | || |_) )(  ___/
     (____/`\____)(_)   (_)(_,__/'`\____)
     syslog-ng and logrotate installation
     v1.1_0 (master)  Coded by cynicastic


 fetching scribe from GitHub master branch ...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   122    0   122    0     0     99      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--   233
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain
More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

 scribe GitHub repository is unavailable!  -- Aborting.

I added a '-k' flag to the curl line (in the 'scribe' script) to ignore the verification part, BUT it had lots of problems running the script !!! (lots of dirs/files not found !!!???)

I ended up using git clone to copy the files/.zip down and manually set up the directories etc in /jffs/scripts/... and /opt/tmp/[scribe]|[scribe-master] .....

I ran the 'scribe' script multiple times and fixed the missing dirs/files until it was happy !!!

I was eventually able to run the 'scribe install' and 'scribe restart' to confirm all was working (after copying the 'right' files into /opt/tmp/[scribe]|[scribe-master]/[logrotate.share]|[syslog-ng.share])

Big Hint:
Make sure all the dirs/files are chmod'ed to '0755' otherwise the script is designed to ignore them.
I think this may possibly have been my problem !!!

 

[Xentrk]

Is this relevant? post #510

That was the fix! Thanks.

 

[Xentrk]

I already have an existing syslog-ng installation. Appears this may have caused an issue with the installer script:

Downloading http://bin.entware.net/armv7sf-k2.6/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /opt/var/opkg-lists/entware

 syslog-ng already installed!
 Forcing installation may overwrite modified configuration files!
 Do you want to force re-installation of syslog-ng [y|n]? y
 Checking syslog-ng...              dead.

Removing package syslog-ng from root...
Not deleting modified conffile /opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf.
Installing syslog-ng (3.19.1-2) to root...
Downloading http://bin.entware.net/armv7sf-k2.6/syslog-ng_3.19.1-2_armv7-2.6.ipk
Configuring syslog-ng.
Collected errors:
 * resolve_conffiles: Existing conffile /opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf is different from the conffile in the new package. The new conffile will be placed at /opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf-opkg.

 syslog-ng version 3.19 or higher required!
Please update your Entware packages and run scribe install again.

Removing package syslog-ng from root...
Not deleting modified conffile /opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf.

I then confirmed syslog-ng was no longer installed and reinstalled:

Xentrk@RT-AC88U-8248:/jffs/scripts# opkg list-installed | grep syslog
Xentrk@RT-AC88U-8248:/jffs/scripts# opkg install syslog-ng
Installing syslog-ng (3.19.1-2) to root...
Downloading http://bin.entware.net/armv7sf-k2.6/syslog-ng_3.19.1-2_armv7-2.6.ipk
Configuring syslog-ng.
Collected errors:
 * resolve_conffiles: Existing conffile /opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf is different from the conffile in the new package. The new conffile will be placed at /opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf-opkg.

Running a check shows syslog-ng is dead.

 checking configuration for necessary scribe hooks ...

          checking S01syslog-ng ... updated.

         checking service-event ...sed: /jffs/scripts/service-event: No such file or directory
grep: /jffs/scripts/service-event: No such file or directory
 updated.

            checking post-mount ... updated.

    checking logrotate cron job ... updated.

 checking syslog-ng daemon ...

         syslog-ng syntax check ...[2019-05-19T12:11:39.217635] WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, syslog-ng is running in compatibility mode. Please update it to use the syslog-ng 3.19 format at your time of convenience. To upgrade the configuration, please review the warnings about incompatible changes printed by syslog-ng, and once completed change the @version header at the top of the configuration file.;
 okay!

      checking syslog-ng daemon ... dead.

          scribe installed version: v1.1_0 (master)
             scribe GitHub version: v1.1_0 (master)
                    scribe is up to date!

Appears the installer is not handling the condition where an existing syslog-ng.conf file exists?

 

[elorimer]

can someone help you how to set up loggly?

Search in this thread. There are some posts from @Butterfly Bones that are helpful.

 

[Xentrk]

I renamed /opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf and got a little further in the install process:

Included from /opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf:
11      #   source net function to get udp log messages from local network commented out
12      #   destination log_server function added (commented out) to illustrate sending udp log messages to server on local network
13
14      @version: 3.19
15      @include "/opt/etc/syslog-ng.d/" # Put any customization files in this directory
16---->
16----> ^
17      options {
18          chain_hostnames(no); # Enable or disable the chained hostname format.
19          create_dirs(yes);
20          keep_hostname(yes); # Enable or disable hostname rewriting.
21          log_fifo_size(256); # The number of messages that the output queue can store.


syslog-ng documentation: https://www.balabit.com/support/documentation?product=syslog-ng-ose
contact: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
 FAILED!


      checking syslog-ng daemon ... dead.

          scribe installed version: v1.1_0 (master)
             scribe GitHub version: v1.1_0 (master)
                    scribe is up to date!

Xentrk@RT-AC88U-8248:/jffs/scripts# /opt/etc/init.d/S01syslog-ng start
 Starting syslog-ng...              done.

Xentrk@RT-AC88U-8248:/jffs/scripts# /opt/etc/init.d/S01syslog-ng check
 Checking syslog-ng...              dead.