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Date:      Sat, 26 Apr 1997 14:07:54 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.com
Cc:        sysop@mixcom.com (Jeffrey J. Mountin)
Subject:   Re: Syslog bug?
Message-ID:  <19970426140754.FX05174@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970426013452.00713034@mixcom.com>; from Jeffrey J. Mountin on Apr 26, 1997 01:34:53 -0500
References:  <3.0.32.19970426013452.00713034@mixcom.com>

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As Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:

> First, why do some of the logs unders syslogd stamp with the local (CDT)
> time and some with GMT?  Easy enough to -5:00 them, but why they vary...

No idea on this.  I had to dig into the source, but that's something
you could do as well. :)

> Secondly why do I have:
> 
> Apr 26 01:00:01 nr sendmail[18248]: gethostbyaddr() failed for 207.227.127.82
> 
> ... for every single IP alias'd

Because you forget to add a DNS reverse lookup entry for them.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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