Replacing syslogd with syslog-ng (sysutils/syslog-ng) on FreeBSD

I just got Victoria Logs running. Now I want to get logs into it. For starters, I want to get the logs on the host itself into Victoria Logs. I figure this is a log-risk experiment. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 syslog-ng-4.11.0_2 I will be using TLS between syslog-ng and victoria-logs – you will notice this is all on the same host, and some of you might say: you don’t need TLS for that. However, this is a proof-of-concept for remote hosts. They will be passing traffic through my VPN and my network. Or perhaps over the Internet. Things change. Let’s start with TLS. The install I installed: [20:08 logs dvl ~] % sudo pkg install syslog-ng Updating local repository catalogue... [logs.int.unixathome.org] Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2 kB/s 00:01 [logs.int.unixathome.org] Fetching data: 100% 352 KiB 360.5 kB/s 00:01 Processing entries: 100% local repository update completed. 953 packages processed. All repositories are up to date. The following 7 package(s) will be…