FIXME: drop this patch and just fix PATH_LOCALSTATEDIR ? diff -urNp -x '*.orig' syslog-ng-syslog-ng-4.2.0.org/lib/syslog-ng.h syslog-ng-syslog-ng-4.2.0/lib/syslog-ng.h --- syslog-ng-syslog-ng-4.2.0.org/lib/syslog-ng.h 2023-05-10 16:55:07.000000000 +0200 +++ syslog-ng-syslog-ng-4.2.0/lib/syslog-ng.h 2023-07-18 21:48:11.436408132 +0200 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ #if SYSLOG_NG_ENABLE_ENV_WRAPPER #define PATH_SYSLOGNG SYSLOG_NG_PATH_LIBEXECDIR "/syslog-ng" #endif -#define PATH_PERSIST_CONFIG SYSLOG_NG_PATH_LOCALSTATEDIR "/syslog-ng.persist" +#define PATH_PERSIST_CONFIG "/var/lib/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.persist" typedef struct _LogPipe LogPipe; typedef struct _LogMessage LogMessage; diff -urNp -x '*.orig' syslog-ng-syslog-ng-4.2.0.org/scripts/update-patterndb.in syslog-ng-syslog-ng-4.2.0/scripts/update-patterndb.in --- syslog-ng-syslog-ng-4.2.0.org/scripts/update-patterndb.in 2023-05-10 16:55:07.000000000 +0200 +++ syslog-ng-syslog-ng-4.2.0/scripts/update-patterndb.in 2023-07-18 21:48:11.436408132 +0200 @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ prefix=@prefix@ exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@ bindir=@bindir@ sysconfdir=@sysconfdir@ -localstatedir=@localstatedir@ +localstatedir=/var/lib/syslog-ng ${bindir}/pdbtool merge -r --glob \*.pdb -D ${sysconfdir}/patterndb.d -p ${localstatedir}/patterndb.xml