syslog-ng CFG Helper

This tool makes configuring syslog-ng a bit easier by listing the options of each available driver.

The options are generated from syslog-ng v4.6.0.

Quickstart

Install with pipx

pipx install syslog-ng-cfg-helper

List the contexts

syslog-ng-cfg-helper

List the drivers in a context

syslog-ng-cfg-helper --context parser

List the options of a driver

syslog-ng-cfg-helper --context parser --driver csv-parser

Example

Development

The tool is still in development, but most of the drivers are supported.

Missing features are:

• Proper rewrite support.
• Proper filter support.
• Drivers defined in SCLs.
• Drivers defined with confgen.

Any contribution is welcome :)

Local setup

The project uses poetry as a dependency management system.

Building of the option database needs the neologism pip package, which gets installed by poetry, however it has another dependency, which is bison. Make sure to install bison (at least 3.7.6) on you system if you wan't to develop locally. make bison can help with that.

The Makefile consists of some useful commands:

• make venv prepares the venv.
• make bison downloads bison 3.7.6, builds it and installs it under /usr/local.
  • You can change the install path with make bison BISON_INSTALL_PATH=...
• make check runs the unit tests, style-checkers and linters.
• make format formats the code.
• make db downloads the syslog-ng release tarball and generates the option database.
• make db SYSLOG_NG_SOURCE_DIR=/path/to/syslog-ng creates a tarball from the state of the syslog-ng source dir and generates the option database.
• make package creates the pip package.

Community

You can reach out to the syslog-ng community on Discord: