[syslog-ng] Bug: Numeric digits stripped from source hostname and time mangled.

[Christopher Cashell]

Balazs Scheidler did thus speak on 4/9/2008 2:31 PM:
> So much about heuristics, the reason for this is that syslog-ng tries to
> parse multiple date/time formats and one of them has a year right after
> the original BSD timestamp.
> 
> So syslog-ng assumes that the message given is from year 1234, which
> cannot be represented by unix timestamps (range 1970 - 2038), and that's
> the reason for the garbled timestamp.
> 
> Can you check if this patch fixes it:
> 
> commit 476a72e1d927d3404e22866bd9310c6013938d1b
> Author: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
> Date:   Wed Apr 9 21:30:50 2008 +0200

[Snip: Patch]

I have applied the patch and verified that all of the previously failing 
test cases I had are now working correctly.

Thank you!

-- 
Christopher Cashell