I've got a linux box running here running the lastest syslog-ng. I'm using the messages syslog-ng generates as input for my project and noticed a strange effect:

Some daemons (especially the PAM-library) produce loglines with a localized (here: german) monthname. This is very uncomfortable for my work. How can that happen if syslog-ng generates them ?

Does anyone know how to get all datestamps in english ?

Someone else has also noticed this, but I can't find a good solution. Syslog-ng checks if the incoming log line has the date prepended or not. If there's something that looks like a date stamp it's accepted, otherwise one is generated. A datestamp is accepted if spaces and ':'s are in the correct position: May 23 15:18:51 ^ ^ ^ ^ I think it's more a client issue, libc should be patched to always send dates in en_US or not send dates at all. -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 url: http://www.balabit.hu/pgpkey.txt