[syslog-ng] syslog-ng logging with wrong year

G.W. Haywood ged at jubileegroup.co.uk
Wed Apr 9 14:02:57 CEST 2008


Hi there,

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 Balazs Scheidler wrote:

> ...the timestamp of the message does not contain a year, there's a
> heuristic in syslog-ng to determine that.
> ...
> I'm reluctant to change this in 2.0 (the current algorithm has been
> in place for about a decade now), however I can commit a patch to 2.1.
> What do others think?

If you do, please make it optional, disabled by default.  It could be
enabled by a command-line switch or by the configuration file options.

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73,
Ged.


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