[syslog-ng]Year problems?

[William Yodlowsky]

On 2 May 2002 at 21:15, William Yodlowsky <wyodlows@andromeda.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> Running syslog-ng 1.5.13 on Solaris 8 64bit.  It only handles logs
> locally for that one machine (config below).
> 
> The problem: when the logfiles rolled over to May, I ended up with two
> logfiles for May 1:  a "maillog-05-01-2001" and "maillog-05-01-2002".
> 
> I know the file isn't simply leftover from last year, because this box
> didn't exist last year.  :)
> 
> Oddly enough, it seems that the 2001 file was used for May 1 up until
> 3:59am, and at 4:00am the 2002 file picks up where it left off.  The
> machine has no crontabs that run at 4am (or 3am for that matter).  No
> one logged in and did anything.  Any ideas at all?

Okay, I had forgotten to add the timezone stuff in the chroot jail, so 
that was what skewed it from the system clock (because I'm 4 hours off
from GMT).

Sorry about that.

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