[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.0.4 not adjusting for daylight savings time

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Thu Mar 18 10:53:16 CET 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:44 -0500, Chris Fabri wrote:
> I have a red hat 3 system running 3.0.4  It did not successfully
> adjust for daylight savings time.    Everything else on the system is
> fine - syslog is showing the correct time stamps, the system reports
> the correct time.   Restart of syslog-ng, and shutting down both
> syslog and syslog-ng did not help.  I didn't see anything in the lists
> addressing this, here are details of my syslog-ng:
> 
> [fabric at netlog dhcp]$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -V
> syslog-ng 3.0.4
> Revision: ssh+git://bazsi@git.balabit//var/scm/git/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ose--mainline--3.0#master#1b5d618e301ad94aa20e692ffba16469dece8d10
> Compile-Date: Aug 24 2009 16:54:31
> Enable-Threads: off
> Enable-Debug: off
> Enable-GProf: off
> Enable-Memtrace: off
> Enable-Sun-STREAMS: off
> Enable-Sun-Door: off
> Enable-IPv6: on
> Enable-Spoof-Source: off
> Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on
> Enable-SSL: off
> Enable-SQL: off
> Enable-Linux-Caps: on
> Enable-Pcre: off
> 
> 
>  I didn't see anything in the man page for adjusting for time.  I have
> keep_timestamp(no) configured in my conf file.   The systems sending
> the syslog files time is correctly adjusted for daylight savings.  Is
> this a bug in this particular version, or am I just missing the right
> flag or something?     chris

You state that syslog is showing correct timestamps. Is that syslogd? Or
where do you see the problem?

-- 
Bazsi




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