Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:45:23 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-elastic@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logstash improvements Message-ID: <1520959523.4160936.1301725184.7519F688@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <op.zfmevbs0pvh08s@laptopidis> References: <1520613071.2637344.1297510176.6EBF62F8@webmail.messagingengine.com> <op.zfmevbs0pvh08s@laptopidis>
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On Fri, Mar 9, 2018, at 12:58, Fotis Zabaras via freebsd-elastic wrote: > On Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:31:11 +0200, Mark Felder <feld@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? > I tend to automatically mount procfs and fdescfs for Java programs, but this would be a useful message for new users. -- Mark Felder ports-secteam & portmgr member feld@FreeBSD.org
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