Peter Czanik

syslog-ng & sudo evangelist at BalaBit (One Identity), openSUSE / Fedora / FreeBSD contributor, OpenPOWER & Arm maniac, IBM POWER champion

Blog: https://peter.czanik.hu/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterczanik/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PCzanik

Last Notes

2026-05-26 13:32:14 CEST

For many years, the #syslog_ng project provided #container images based on #Debian. Most of our users run syslog-ng on #RHEL & compatibles, and have asked for an #RPM-based container. So, nightly containers based on @npub1ax5…lujq are now also available.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/nightly-syslog-ng-containers-based-on-alma-linux

2026-02-12 11:47:26 CET

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I started with #Slacware in 1994, soon switched to Red Hat Linux for a few months, and then to #Jurix. Jurix was the basis for S.u.S.E. #Linux 4.2. I'm a @npub1hsc…90ar / @npub1djg…3wvl user since the SuSE Linux 4.3 release in 1996, so for the past 30 years now.

2025-09-30 10:17:49 CEST

Version 16.0 of #openSUSE Leap will be released tomorrow. So, I was very happy to find an @npub1djg…3wvl conference t-shirt on the top of the heap this morning :-) It will include #syslog_ng 4.9 with all important fixes backported.
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2025-01-30 09:45:41 CET

I'm not an active sysadmin anymore, but I regularly get sysadmin questions. One is, how to upgrade #RHEL or compatible systems in-place.
#Elevate, an @npub1ax5…lujq project just solves this problem:
https://almalinux.org/elevate/
@npub1smf…28q2, @npub1lcl…lp7e and #OracleLinux are also supported.

2025-01-29 10:55:01 CET

Recently I have posted a #Dockerfile to run #syslog_ng in an @npub1ax5…lujq container. I got some encouraging feedback, so this week I experimented with syslog-ng #Premium Edition (PE) in a #RHEL #UBI (Universal Base Image) container. #Feedback is welcome!
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/running-syslog-ng-pe-in-rhel-ubi

2024-11-27 14:48:05 CET

Last week I introduced you to my latest project: a #syslog_ng #container based on @npub1ax5…lujq . This week I added a syslog-ng #Prometheus #exporter to the container, so you can also monitor syslog-ng, if you enable it.
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/syslog-ng-prometheus-exporter-added-to-rpm-syslog-ng-container-image
#LogManagement #Monitoring

2024-11-20 14:43:48 CET

The official #syslog_ng #container image is based on #Debian Stable. However, we’ve been getting requests for an #RPM-based image for many years. So, I made an initial version available based on @npub1ax5…lujq and now I need your #feedback about it!
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/experimental-syslog-ng-container-image-based-on-alma-linux

2024-11-12 10:19:57 CET

Call for #syslog_ng testing:
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/call-for-testing-syslog-ng-in-opensuse-leap-16-0
syslog-ng is now available in @npub1djg…3wvl Leap 16.0. Please test both syslog-ng and Leap 16.0. It's still pre-alpha, but seems to work fine on my machine.

2024-10-25 10:19:39 CEST

In #Hungary we have a national holiday on the 23rd of October. The weather was nice, so I went #hiking :-) #Autumn #flowers
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