[syslog-ng]1.6.0rc4 released

Balazs Scheidler syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:25:39 +0200


On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:08:54PM +0400, Serge Torop wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> The bug with different dates log file is still present
> in 1.6.0rc4:
> 
> destination d_fetchm {
> file("/var/log/fetchmail/fetchmaillog.$DAY.$MONTH.$YEAR")
> ; }; 
> 
> # date
> Oct 9 18:06:49 
> 
> ls -la /var/log/fetchmail
> 
> -rw-------    1 root    root   5355 Oct  9 17:59 fetchmaillog.09.10.2003
> -rw-------    1 root    root   430  Oct  9 17:59 fetchmaillog.31.12.2002

by default syslog-ng uses the timestamp within the message, so you might
have received a message which contains bad timestamp. (and the year itself
is not included in the log message so it is deduced from the other parts of
the timestamp)

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