[syslog-ng]Wrong timestamp on internal messages

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:02:26PM +0100, henriksa@telia.com wrote:
> These are the last two lines in the log after restarting syslog-ng:
> 
> Nov 29 12:49:15 src@xxxx syslog-ng[5120]: syslog-ng version 1.5.23 going
> down
> Nov 29 12:49:16 src@xxxx syslog-ng[5133]: syslog-ng version 1.5.23 starting
> 
> But 'date' gives the following:
> 
> Fri Nov 29 13:49:23 MET 2002
> 
> 'date -u' gives the same time as the internal message. So messages
> coming from other sources are timestamped with local time, internal()
> messages are stamped with GMT. Why is that?

chroot ? syslog-ng might not find /etc/localtime which is needed for time
zone information.

the value returned by localtime() is used.

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Bazsi
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