On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:05:23PM +0100, John Källström wrote:
Hello!
A quick glance at my logfiles shows that on startup syslog-ng will produce 2 messages. One of them ends up in /var/syslog/husmusen/1970/01/debug
*snip* Feb 29 14:57:13 husmusen syslog-ng[22926]: syslog-ng version 1.4.0rc3 starting *snip*
ops, internal messages had bogus date, try this patch: diff -urN syslog-ng-1.4.0rc3/src/log.c syslog-ng-1.4.0rc4/src/log.c --- syslog-ng-1.4.0rc3/src/log.c Fri Feb 25 13:20:43 2000 +++ syslog-ng-1.4.0rc4/src/log.c Tue Feb 29 16:36:13 2000 @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ } else { while (left && *src != ' ' && *src != '[' && *src != ':' && - src != '/' && src != ',' && src != '<') { + *src != '/' && *src != ',' && *src != '<') { src++; left--; } @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ NEW_SPACE(self); self->msg = c_format_cstring("syslog-ng[%i]: %s", getpid(), length, data); self->program = c_format_cstring("syslog-ng"); - self->recvd = time(NULL); + self->stamp = self->recvd = time(NULL); self->pri = pri; self->flags = LF_INTERNAL; self->use_cnt = 1;
and the other one ends up in /var/syslog/husmusen/2000/02/debug (which to me seems more correct since it's not year 1970 and not even month 01 :-)
*snip* Feb 29 14:57:13 husmusen syslog-ng: syslog-ng startup succeeded *snip*
this line is not generated by syslog-ng, maybe a special startup script? -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 url: http://www.balabit.hu/pgpkey.txt