Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:00:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Syslog date format Message-ID: <20090727030023.GV63413@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038660907261640o478e38f2p82d1e66942d2fcb0@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660907261640o478e38f2p82d1e66942d2fcb0@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 26), Modulok said: > Is it possible (without patching source) to change the date format > that syslog spits out into the log files? If so, how? The manual page > makes no mention of it. No, if you want to change it you'd have to edit the source. Note that the current date format matches RFC 3164, so if you change it, you risk breaking any parsing program that tries to read the logfiles, and if you forward those messages to another machine, they won't recognise your timestamp and will probably add another timestamp to the line. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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