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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:22:20 +0300
From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
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Subject: Re: syslog time resolution
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:29:23PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to increase the number of decimals reported in logfiles by 
> syslogd(8), anyone knows if it is possible and perhaps a hint on how to do 
> it?
>
> tcpdump for instance, has six decimals: 21:25:20.160833 whereas the 
> standard syslog has zero decimal secs.
>
> I am only referring to events within a single system so it's not related to 
> clock accuracy.
>
> Thanks and sorry if I missed the obvious!
>
> --per

Guessing on syslogd source (src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c, line ~900)
time() and ctime() functions are used to get timestamps, which return
only full seconds. So, if I'm not mistaken, there's no easy way to get
desired behaviour from base's syslogd.


Yuri