[syslog-ng] RFC3339 fractional second logging

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:44 +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:37 +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 08:29 -0500, rlott at ivhs.com wrote:

> So there are two timestamps per message:
> 
> 1) the one in the message as received from the peer, it will never
> contain fractions except when the message was generated by syslog-ng and
> this information was also sent by using a custom template (syslog-ng
> tries to remain compatible with existing syslog devices by default, thus
> it does not send an extended timestamp) Macros referencing this timestamp 
> begin with "S_" (for stamp)
> 
> 2) the one assigned by syslog-ng when the message was received from the
> peer. This should always contain fractions. These stamps begin with
> "R_" (for received)
> 
> The prefixes might not be very intuitive, their naming is historical
> heritage :)
> 
> Thus the example configuration that you sent above should indeed include
> the time fractions, but not because the peer sends it, but because
> syslog-ng generates R_ timestamps locally as the messages arrive.
> 
> However it does not work for some reason. Let me check it and get back
> to you.
> 

I've just committed a patchset that should fix this functionality. I
also added frac_digits() option which controls how precisely time
fractions should be represented. (again, you need tomorrow's snapshot)

This is my test configuration:

options { 
	file_template(t_file); 
	proto_template(t_proto); 
	ts_format(iso); 
	normalize_hostnames(yes); 
};

template t_file { template("<$PRI>$ISODATE $HOST $MSG\n"); template-escape(no); };
template t_proto { template("<$PRI>$ISODATE $HOST $MSG\n"); template-escape(no); };

source s_udp { unix-stream("log"); udp(ip("0.0.0.0") port(2000) flags(kernel) keep-timestamp(no)); };

destination d_file {
        file("/home/bazsi/zwa/install/syslog-ng-2.0/logs/messages");
        udp("localhost" port(3000) frac_digits(6));
};

log { source(s_udp); destination(d_file); };


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Bazsi