How To Install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 is MySQL support for rsyslog

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `rsyslog-mysql.x86_64`

The rsyslog-mysql package contains a dynamic shared object that will add MySQL database support to rsyslog.

We can use yum to install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64.

Install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64

How To Uninstall rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rsyslog-mysql.x86_64

rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/rsyslog/ommysql.so
/usr/share/doc/rsyslog-8.24.0/mysql-createDB.sql

References

rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.