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I'm trying to find a higher paying job and I came across one for a "Syslog-ng Admin/Engineer." The pay seems promising and the requirements aren't that long but does ask for experience in syslog-ng. I've never heard of this before today. What is syslog-ng and what can I do to get experience with it?

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

generally replaced by systemd’s journald service

Basically this, and quite a long time ago. Anything even remotely modern (and by that I mean like, the last decade or so) is either using systemd, or in the case of debuntu, rsyslog.

Wonder what kind of funky environment is using syslog-ng, and to what scale so that there's literally a 'syslog-ng engineer' job posting.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It'll either be military or industrial... neither want to replace “perfectly operational“ tech for ~10 years.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

If it's "perfectly operational", they wouldn't need someone to maintain it 🫠

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

and to what scale so that there’s literally a ‘syslog-ng engineer’ job posting

Asking the real questions.