logstash improvements
Fotis Zabaras
news at saz.gr
Fri Mar 9 17:58:25 UTC 2018
On Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:31:11 +0200, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
> As logstash6 has fewer users at the moment, I've started making large
> improvements to the port. My recent commit does the following:
>
> sysutils/logstash6: Many improvements
>
> - all config files are now in ETCDIR
> - rc script is updated to use logsearch.yml to locate logging config
> (logstash.conf)
> This will not break existing setups that used the
> ETCDIR/logstash.conf file,
> as that is
> now part of the default logstash.yml file
> - added configtest to rc script
> - sample logstash.conf file no longer includes invalid syntax
> - pkg-message had historical messages removed
>
>
>
> Previously all of the logstash.yml, jvm.options, etc were in
> /usr/local/logstash/config which is not an ideal location and may not be
> preserved between pkg upgrades. Now it's in ETCDIR where it belongs.
>
> Soon I plan to also add a dedicated daemon user instead of running as
> root by default. There's no good reason for this unless you need to
> listen on syslog port 514, but there are other ways of solving that
> problem (MAC framework, for example).
>
Nice :)
Should we add also on the pkg-message the requirement of /proc to be
mounted
as it is needed by java?
Fotis
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