slogencrypt command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix slogencrypt command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

slogencrypt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: slogencrypt: command not found

Solutions to slogencrypt: command not found

How To Fix slogencrypt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu slogencrypt is provided by syslog-ng-mod-slog package.

syslog-ng-mod-slog is:

syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, message queues, databases (SQL and NoSQL alike) and more.

Key features:

receive and send RFC3164 and RFC5424 style syslog messages
work with any kind of unstructured data
receive and send JSON formatted messages
classify and structure logs with builtin parsers (csv-parser(), db-parser(), etc.)
normalize, crunch and process logs as they flow through the system
hand on messages for further processing using message queues (like AMQP), files or databases (like PostgreSQL or MongoDB).

This package provides the $(slog) template functions and command line utilities (slogencrypt, slogverify, slogkey).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install syslog-ng-mod-slog

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install syslog-ng-mod-slog.

sudo apt -y install syslog-ng-mod-slog

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install syslog-ng-mod-slog

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix slogencrypt command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.