Question: Retain default local config with additional config included

[anthonysomerset]

Hi Team

This is more a generic question on something that is unclear as i start reading the docs and config examples

My desired use case is to keep the default syslog-ng config file to keep the local logging to files intact, then i want to add config to define additional sources/filters and destinations to recieve/parse/forward logs accordingly

is this use case possible out of the box? or would i need to "rebuild" default config manually with the module?

[faxm0dem]

Let me check

[faxm0dem]

It seems this is possible, by specifying another configuration file:

class { 'syslog_ng':
  config_file => '/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/puppet-managed.conf'
}

Just make sure you include that file in your main configuration file.
Please report back if this works. We could include your use-case in the documentation.