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syslog_ng-formula
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Formula to set up and configure syslog_ng

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General notes
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See the full `SaltStack Formulas installation and usage instructions
<https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/conventions/formulas.html>`_.

If you are interested in writing or contributing to formulas, please pay attention to the `Writing Formula Section
<https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/conventions/formulas.html#writing-formulas>`_.

If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the ``FORMULA`` file and/or ``git tag``,
which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to `Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org/>`_.

See `Formula Versioning Section <https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/development/conventions/formulas.html#versioning>`_ for more details.

Contributing to this repo
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**Commit message formatting is significant!!**

Please see :ref:`How to contribute <CONTRIBUTING>` for more details.

Available states
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``syslog_ng``
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Installs and configures the syslog_ng package.

``syslog_ng.packages``
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Installs the syslog_ng package and optional packages which may provide additional functionalities.

``syslog_ng.config``
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This state manages the file ``syslog_ng.conf`` under ``/etc`` (template found in "syslog_ng/files"). The configuration is populated by values in "syslog_ng/map.jinja" based on the package's default values (and RedHat, Debian, Suse and Arch family distribution specific values), which can then be overridden by values of the same name in pillar.